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SOME interesting communications have lately appeared in NATURE on this subject, accounting for the wonderful knowledge of routes and localities displayed by birds in their migrations, by the theory that the impressions made on the brains of the parents are transmitted to their offspring, and that which we call vaguely instinct is often inherited memory.
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HOLDEN, J. Inherited Memory in Birds. Nature 20, 266 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020266c0
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