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  • Oenothera brachycarpa A. Gray

    Collection Date
    17 May 1884
  • Lord Sadanobu Threatening a Demon in the Palace at Night (Teishinkō yoru kyūchū ni mononoke wo ayashimu no zu) from the series New Forms of Thirty-six Ghosts (Shinkei sanjūrokkaisen) 「貞信公夜宮中にて怪を懼しむの図」 『新形三十六怪撰』

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    April 1889
    Period
    Meiji era
  • Trade catalogs on glassware for druggists, chemists, and perfumers; prescription bottles, blue ware, cologne bottles, green glassware, glass boxes, homeopathic vials, prescription desk furniture, corks, syringes, stoppered bottles, nursing bottles, museum jars, test tubes, and bottle letter plates

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  • Piptatheropsis exigua (Thurb.) Romasch. et al.

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    2 Jun 1883
  • Polyides rotunda

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    4 Feb 1887
  • Coldenia angelica S. Watson

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    1887
  • glass plate negative

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  • Potamogeton robbinsii Oakes

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    1860-1880

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