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MR. R. BOWDLER SHARPE makes a singular defence to my comments on his “evil practise” of issuing, in August, 1876, a work dated on the cover May, 1875. He says that if I had looked into the interior I should have found “abundant evidence” to convince me that the date on the cover was a false one. Seeing that when I wrote my former letter I had only just received the number from the publishers, I had no need to search for further evidence of such being the fact. Mr. Sharpe must be aware that the covers of works issued in parts are often bound up for the express purpose of preserving a record of the date of issue. How will this plan operate in the case of the second edition of the “Birds of Africa?”
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S., F. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 14, 351 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014351b0
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