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No Such Thing As A Fish
The Origin of Pigeons by John Murray
When Charles Darwin submitted on the origin of species to his publisher, the publisher suggested he should rewrite it exclusively about pigeons. I don't know whether it got passed on to Darwin. But that wouldn't involve ripping the whole thing to pieces because there's quite a lot of pigeon in there. It's just a shot of buck. Yeah. He was really into pigeons though. So he might have been flattered that his pigeon work was so inspiring. Two. London pigeon clubs. One. A lawyer called George Pollock who said that it was beyond the apprehension of any living scientist. And the other was this guy called Whitwell Elwin who was a clergyman and he wrote back
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