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| Title | The Beginnings of Life: Being Some Account of the Nature, Modes of Origin and Transformation of Lower Organisms, Volume 1 The Beginnings of Life: Being Some Account of the Nature, Modes of Origin and Transformation of Lower Organisms, Henry Charlton Bastian Volume 1 of The beginnings of life, Henry Charlton Bastian |
| Author | Henry Charlton Bastian |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1872 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 11 Sep 2006 |
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