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Excerpt from On the Variation of Species: With Especial Reference to the Insecta; Followed by an Inquiry Into the Nature of Genera
To make a dry subject entertaining, is impossible but to render it, at any rate, readable, has been my endeavour in the following pages. How far I have succeeded in the experiment, it is not for me to decide.
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