A letter from Yeats to Frank O'Connor, a first edition of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and a silver tiara decorated with scenes from the work of Burns.

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By an amazing twist in literary evolution there is a lucid, well-versed scientific writer on evolutionary genetics where there was none before. Fact is, Richard Dawkins is one of only very few brilliant scientists who can also write coherently.