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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society

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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society

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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society

Volume 50, Part 5

Cornelius C. Vermeule (1960). Philadelphia / The American Philosophical Society.

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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society

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