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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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from the Chemung Group of New York ; and Sphinctozoan Calcisponge from the Upper 
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Index to 1897 ; Naturalist, Oct.; Nature, Sept. 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13, 21; Nature 
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