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MR. GALTON—by acting upon the conclusion that the supposed gemmules supposed to be detached from the cells of the body at different periods of life in the case of the higher animals swarmed in the blood prior to their supposed collection and union to form the reproductive element—favoured the provisional hypothesis of Pangenesis, for he indicated a not improbable manner in which the very improbable phenomena involved in the hypothesis might actually occur.
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BEALE, L. Pangenesis. Nature 4, 25–26 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004025b0
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