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  • Sherd: Unclassified Polychrome

    Accession Date
    1964
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    1948
  • Eucalyptus tetrodonta F. Muell.

    Collection Date
    30 May 1948
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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    1943
  • Art in our time / henshū Seibu Hyakkaten

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    1991
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  • Festuca sp.

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    21 Feb 1945
  • Asplenium praemorsum Sw.

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    31 Dec 1944
  • Chaetodon lunula

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    29 Jun 1949 and 7 Jul 1949
  • Lepidopa websteri

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    16 Aug 1941
  • Fighting Side By Side So That Every Person May Worship God in His Own Way!

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    1944
  • Heliconia acuminata A. Rich. subsp. acuminata

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    6 Sep 1942

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