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The Problem of the Origin of Species as it appeared to Darwin in 1859 and as it appears to us To-day

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I HAVE discovered two errors in my recent paper which appeared under this title in NATURE of August 21, 1926. These errors were due to the hurried assemblage of facts and citations under the heading “Geographic Isolation and Speciation”; they will be carefully corrected in a sequel to this paper which is now in preparation for the American Naturalist, to be published under the title “The Origin of Species, V.: Speciation and Mutation.” Meanwhile, I desire to point out as inaccurate the following statement in my paper:

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OSBORN, H. The Problem of the Origin of Species as it appeared to Darwin in 1859 and as it appears to us To-day. Nature 118, 591–592 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118591c0

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