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PROF. HALDANE here applies his imaginative and literary craftsmanship to the conquest of new worlds. His friend Mr. Leakey is the most lovable of magicians, with a finer sense of right and wrong than one had learned to expect of his profession, and with limitations—to his still exceptional powers —which are at once convincing and endearing. We can picture few greater joys than dinner with Mr. Leakey ; should this note chance to reach Prof. Haldane's eye, perhaps he will relent and put the address of Mr. Leakey's flat (not 22la Baker Street, because it is quite near Haymarket) in the next edition—although we should not be surprised if it had to be in the next edition but one.
My Friend Mr. Leakey
By J. B. S. Haldane. Pp. v+179. (London: The Cresset Press, Ltd., 1937.) 6s. net
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My Friend Mr Leakey. Nature 141, 7 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141007a0
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