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THE last meeting—on June 18—of the Linnean Society was one of very exceptional interest, because the survivor of the two illustrious naturalists who, on the same night—more than thirty-seven years ago—first enunciated in that Society's rooms the doctrine of the origin of species by “natural selection,” read a highly interesting paper on that very subject.
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MIVART, S. Are Specific Characters the Result of “Natural Selection”?. Nature 54, 246–247 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054246a0
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