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  • Xenopsylla cheopis

    Collection Date
    24 Jun 1939
  • The Fate of vultures : new poetry of Africa : an anthology of entries from the 1988 BBC Arts and Africa Poetry award / edited by Kofi Anyidoho, Peter Porter and Musaemura Zimunya

    Date
    1989
    20th century
  • Oropsylla (Diamanus) montana

    Collection Date
    Dec 1936
  • Benson Bond Moore's list of works sold

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    1937-1939
  • Lamas, princes, and brigands : Joseph Rock's photographs of the Tibet borderlands of China / Michael Aris ; with the assistance of Patrick Booz and contributions by S.B. Sutton and Jeffrey Wagner

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    1992
    1901-1948
  • Mimulus ringens L.

    Collection Date
    25 Jul 1939
  • Melica aristata Thurb. ex Bol.

    Collection Date
    11 Jun 1939
  • Ficus pleioclada Diels

    Collection Date
    May 1936
  • Eriocoma lettermanii (Vasey) Romasch.

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    4 Jul 1935
  • Cambarus (Cambarus) angularis

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    29 Jan 1938

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