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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge. — There is a desire on the part of the 

 biologists of Cambridge to celebrate in 1909 the centenary 

 of Darwin's birth and the jubilee of the publication of the 

 " Origin of Species " by endeavouring to found a chair 

 of biology, the occupant of which shall devote himself to 

 those subjects which were the chief concern of Darwin's 

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