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only a compiler, and the authorship of the paper belongs to several 

 botanical members. The Halifax Naturalist for October contains a 

 sympathetic life of James Spencer, one of the band of workers 

 associated with the late Jas. W. Davis, Samuel Gibson, and others 

 at Halifax ; a continuation of Mr Crump's Flora of Halifax, and other 

 papers. 



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