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Transmutation Notebook B, Page 45
A greyscale image of Notebook B. The original notebook has been lost and isn't available for photoduplication.
(Reprinted with permission of Syndics of Cambridge University Library, DAR 121:45)

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The Creator has made tribes of animals adapted preeminently for each element, but it seems law that such tribes, as far as compatible with such structure are in minor degrees adapted for. other elements.
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every part would probably be not complete, if birds were fitted solely for air & fishes for water.
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