![I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-am-particularly-fond-of-emmanuel-mendes-da-costas-natural-history-of-fossils.jpg)
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