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I HAVE read with much interest the report in NATURE of Prof. Judd's address to the Geological Society, in which he attempts to show that Mr. Herbert Spencer's definition of life is not restricted to those cases only which display the ordinarily acknowledged characteristics of vitality; a certain correspondence between internal and external changes being displayed by minerals.
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COLLINS, F. Mr. Herbert Spencer's Definition of Life. Nature 35, 487 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035487a0
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