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MR. WALLACE has well said that the question, How a bird's wing moves in flight, “is a very important question.” In these days, when scientific attention is being directed to the problem of aërial navigation, it is especially important. I have the less hesitation, therefore, in troubling you with some further remarks in reply to the strictures of this very accurate observer.
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WARD, J. Animal Locomotion. Nature 9, 381–382 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009381b0
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