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Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 23: The Jersey Devil, And Friends, Charles H. Smith Dec 2022

Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 23: The Jersey Devil, And Friends, Charles H. Smith

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For nearly three hundred years reports have surfaced of a purported cryptid form known as the ‘Jersey devil.’ In this work an interpretation of the goals of biogeography is given, and how this field can be related to such alleged phenomena, as well as to some of the ideas of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) that seem to find their origin in the writings of Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677).