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  • Erythroneura inornata

    Collection Date
    Aug 1899
  • Qing dai qi qi / zhu bian Li Jiufang

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    2006
    C2006
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • Huang Shen hua ji

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    1989
    Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
  • Life histories of North American birds, from the parrots to the grackles, with special reference to their breeding habits and eggs, by Charles Bendire ... with seven lithographic plates

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    1895
  • Liatris chapmanii Torr. & A. Gray

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    12 Jul 1895
  • Histrionicus histrionicus

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    -- -- 18--
  • Victorian decorated trade bindings, 1830-1880 : a descriptive bibliography / Edmund M.B. King

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    2003
    19th century
  • Basket with cover

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    circa 1890
  • Berry box/container

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    circa 1900
  • Bolboschoenus maritimus subsp. paludosus (A. Nelson) T. Koyama

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    29 Jul 1890

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