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It contains zoology, or the science of animals, and botany, or that of plants.
[5] For very interesting examples, see Mr.Wallace's "Malay Archipelago." [6] See Mueller's work, "Fuer Darwin," lately translated into English by Mr.
Dallas.

Mr.Wallace also predicts the discovery, in Madagascar, of a hawk-moth with an enormously long proboscis, and he does this on account of the discovery there of an orchid with a nectary from ten to fourteen inches in length.

See _Quarterly Journal of Science_, October 1867, and "Natural Selection," p.

275.
[7] "Lectures on Man," translated by the Anthropological Society, 1864, p.
229.
[8] Ibid.p.

378.
[9] See Fifth Edition, 1869, p.


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