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Bibliographic information
| Title | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 20 |
| Author | Royal Society (Great Britain) |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, 1872 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2008 |
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