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Linnean Society

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  • British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    / The career of a naturalist

    …with Wallace’s paper, to the Linnean Society. The resulting set of papers, with both Darwin’s and Wallace’s names, was published as a single article entitled “On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection” in the Proceedings of…

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    …with Wallace’s paper, to the Linnean Society. The resulting set of papers, with both Darwin’s and Wallace’s names, was published as a single article entitled “On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection” in the Proceedings of…

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  • Carolus Linnaeus
    Carolus Linnaeus
    / Other contributions of Carolus Linnaeus

    …Edward Smith, founder of the Linnean Society of London.

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    …Edward Smith, founder of the Linnean Society of London.

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