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THE recent acquisition by the British Museum of specimens from East Central Africa and elsewhere has brought into prominence the question of how best to designate the various forms of giraffe to be met with in different regions of Ethiopian Africa, that is to say, whether they should be regarded as distinct species, local races of a single species, or mere, so to say, accidental variations not worthy of systematic separation. The question has been discussed at length in a paper by the present writer read before the Zoological Society on February 2, when a number of paintings and photographs of entire specimens, skins, and skulls were exhibited.
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L., R. Concerning Giraffes . Nature 69, 400–401 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069400a0
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