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WITH the above title Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace brought before the Linnean Society on June 18 an important communication, which derived additional interest from the fact that he himself was present in full health and vigour, as well as from the presence of a large number of naturalists who have given attention to the questions arising from the consideration of the theory of the origin of species by natural selection.
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LANKESTER, E. Are Specific Characters useful?. Nature 54, 245–246 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054245c0
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