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  • Recherches sur l'existence de l'iode dans l'eau de la mer, et dans les plantes qui produisent la soude de varecks : et analyse de plusieurs plantes de la famille des algues : thèse présentée et soutenue devant la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de France, Académie de Paris, le 11 Janvier 1815 / par Henri-François Gaultier de Claubry

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  • Liberia and the Atlantic world in the nineteenth century : convergence and effects William E. Allen

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  • The Four Kittens, (painting)

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