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  • Miscellaneous field notes, I, from the Department of Botany

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    1835-1894
  • Paradise Valley, Nevada : the people and buildings of an American place / Howard Wight Marshall

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    1995
  • Men of our times : or Leading patriots of the day being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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    1868
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    Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Dryopteris x boottii Underw.

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    24 Jul 1897
  • Murder, Inc., and the moral life : gangsters and gangbusters in La Guardia's New York / Robert Weldon Whalen

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    2016
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    2016
    Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
    Republic, 1912-1949
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  • Myriocarpa longipes Liebm.

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    Jan 1892
  • Pourtalesia miranda

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    1895
  • The skull of Alum Bheg : the life and death of a rebel of 1857 / Kim A. Wagner

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    Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858
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