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ON July I, 1858, an epoch in the history of science was created by the reading, before the Linnean Society of London, of the papers by Darwin and Wallace on natural selection; and on July i, 1908, the fiftieth anniversary of this momentous occasion was appropriately celebrated under the auspices of the same society. The publication of Prof. Poulton's volume is especially well timed, for it appears while the Darwin-Wallace commemoration is fresh in the minds of all, and while the weighty utterances by which the veterans Wallace and Hooker themselves so greatly added to the interest of the proceedings on that occasion are still a recent memory.
Essays on Evolution, 1889–1907.
By Prof. E. B. Poulton. Pp. xlviii + 480. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.) Price 12s. net.
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D., F. Essays on Evolution, 1889–1907. Nature 79, 302–303 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079302a0
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