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Protective Resemblances

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HAVING read the various papers by Messrs. Bennett, Murray, Wallace, &c., in NATURE, and thinking that my observations made on plants and animals in various parts of Southern Africa may be of some interest to your readers, I am rather hastily putting together a few facts, which it had been my intention to have worked up into an illustrated paper, but which may perhaps prove of most interest at present, while the discussion is still warm.

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WEALE, J. Protective Resemblances. Nature 3, 507–508 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003507a0

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