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IT is now generally admitted that a thorough and practically useful knowledge of the form and other properties of natural bodies can only be acquired by an examination of such bodits themselves. The difference between knowing a thing by description only and knowing it from personal acquainiance need scarcely be insisted on.
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Museum Specimens for Teaching Purposes 1 . Nature 15, 144–146 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/015144a0
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