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Quote by Ernst Mayr
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big ci

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. – Ernst Mayr

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