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THE general meeting of the American Philosophical Society was held on April 22, 23, and 24. The evening of Friday, April 23, was devoted to a Darwin celebration commemorative of the centenary of Charles Darwin's birth and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the “Origin of Species,” at which addresses were given by the Right Hon. James Bryce, the British Ambassador, on personal reminiscences of Darwin and of the reception-of the “Origin of Species”; by Prof. G. L. Goodale;:of Harvard University, on the influence of Darwin on natural science; and by Prof. G. S. Fullerton, of Columbia University, on the influence of Darwin on the mental and moral sciences.
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The American Philosophical Society . Nature 80, 443–445 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080443a0
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