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In the above letter from Dr. Lotka, which is in accordance with our preceding correspondence, following upon the publication of my article in NATURE, he justly observes that he had obtained the differential equations in the case of two species, one of which feeds upon the other, that he had given, as well as myself, the same diagram of the integral, and also the period in the case of small fluctuations. In this I recognize his priority, and am sorry not to have known his work, and therefore not to have been able to mention it.
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VOLTERRA, V. Fluctuations in the Abundance of a Species considered Mathematically. Nature 119, 12–13 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119012b0
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