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WHEN the first number of NATURE was published in November, 1869, the word “biology” had not the currency now given to it. The word had been adopted by Whewell, and was used by Treviranus and philosophical writers of the early half of last century. What is now called hypnotism was termed “electro-biology,” but the extent of the great field of exploration signified by “biology ” was, little understood. The great event in the history of biological science occurred ten years before the appearance of the first issue of NATURE, namely, in 1859, when Darwin published his book “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.”
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LANKESTER, E. The Foundation of Biological Sciences. Nature 104, 198–201 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104198a0
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