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THE Abyssinian campaign will always be an interesting little episode in history. Unlike so many of our military expeditions in bygone times, it was vigorously conceived, energetically carried out, and successfully concluded, and will, we can entertain no doubt, effectively protect us against a repetition of the outrage which led to its organisation. But even if no other advantage resulted from it, the acquirement of so much additional information, both in regard to the zoology and geology of Abyssinia, as is contained in the work before us, would in great measure reconcile all enthusiastic naturalists to the additional trifle of income-tax they have had to pay as their contribution to the expenses of the war; and to all such, we would recommend Mr. Blanford's book, as enabling them at a small outlay to recompense them selves for the annoyance they have experienced.
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The Natural History of the Abyssinian Expendition*. Nature 2, 29–31 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002029b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/002029b0