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THE presidential address to the Linnean Society of London, delivered last May by Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., and recently published in separate form, deals with a truly astonishing work by G. W. Sleeper, printed, apparently, in Boston, U.S.A., in the year 1849, and containing an anticipation of modern views on evolution and the causes and transmission of disease, which, considering all the circumstances, is extraordinary.
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D., F. A Remarkable Anticipation of Darwin 1 . Nature 92, 588–589 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092588a0
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