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ANXIOUS that popular scientific literature, especially that which deals with the Evolution-doctrine, should be strictly accurate in its facts, I would ask—in no unfriendly spirit—whether Mr. Grant Allen and Mr. Wallace have fully informed themselves upon each of the several positions taken in the paragraph cited with approval by Mr. Wallace (in the last number of NATURE, p. 381) from Mr. Grant Allen's “Vignettes,” referring to the dimensions of the largest animals now existing, as compared with those of the faunæ of past epochs.
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CARPENTER, W. Vignettes from Nature. Nature 25, 435–436 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025435a0
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