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Variation and Natural Selection

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IN Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan's Presidential address to the Bristol Naturalists’ Society, on “The Nature and Origin of Variations” (of which he has kindly sent me a reprint from the Society's Proceedings), there are one or two points on which there seems to me to be a slight misconception; and as the difficulties suggested have probably occurred to other naturalists, I wish to make a few observations in the hope of throwing a little light on this obscure subject.

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WALLACE, A. Variation and Natural Selection. Nature 44, 518–519 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044518b0

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