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DR. FINKLER'S experiments on the transplantation of the heads of insects have attracted both scientific and popular attention to a degree which was marked on the one hand by an exhibit last year at a Royal Society soirée and, on the other, by mention in the pages of Punch. It is desirable, therefore, to direct attention to an emphatic repudiation of his claims which has just been published in the Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie (vol. cxxiii. pp. 157–208) by Hans Blunck and Walter Speyer.

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CALMAN, W. Chimæras Dire. Nature 114, 11–12 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114011c0

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