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PROF. MELDOLA'S reference to Erasmus Darwin's prophecy of flying machines (p. 370) omits the most remarkable proof, as it seems to me, of his insight into the future. The verses which he quotes are from Canto I., lines 289–96, of the “Botanic Garden”; on line 254 there is a note in which occurs the following passage (the italics are mine):—
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PLATT, A. Erasmus Darwin on Flying Machines. Nature 84, 397 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084397b0
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