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  • Carex woodii Dewey

    Collection Date
    15 Jun 1884
  • Old Scottish communion plate by the Rev. Thomas Burns ... with a preface by the Right Rev. James Macgregor .. and chronological tables of Scottish hall-marks prepared by Alexander J. S. Brook

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    1892
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    20th century
  • Dytaster grandis grandis

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    6 Sep 1884
  • Our silver coinage and its relation to debts and the world-wide depression in prices. With an appendix noting events to August, 1889, by John A. Grier

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    1889
  • Wine Bottles, (painting)

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    1884
  • Falco peregrinus

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    -- -- 18--
  • Serridentinus floridanus (Leidy)

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    1887
  • Lepus americanus Erxleben

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    1885
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    21 Sep 1883
  • Apluda mutica L.

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    4 Sep 1888

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