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NATURE 



{July lo, 1879 



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Agassiz, Histoire Naturelle 



des Poissons d'Eau douce de I'Europe cen- 

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 £a 4-^. _ 1839-42 



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Agassiz, Untersuchungen 



iiber die Gletscher, 8vo, text and folio atlas 

 of plates (pub. 40 frs.). ^s. 1841 



Agassiz, Monographic des 



Poissons fossiles du Sysicme Devonlen (Old 

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Xeuchaiel, 1844 



Agassiz, Monographic d'E- 



chinodermes, vivants et fossiles. 4 vjls. in i, 

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Neuchatel. 1339-42 



Agassiz, Etudes critiques sur 



les Mollusques fossiles, 4 livraisons, i vol. 



4to, 105 plates (pub. io3 frs.), hf. morocco, 



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Livm. I. Les Trygonies du Jura, et de la craile 



Suisse, II plates. 



,, II. — IV. Les Myes de Jura, &c., 24 plates. 



Agassiz, Nomenclator 



Zoologlcus, continens nomina systematica 

 generum animalium tarn viventium quam 

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■ Nomenclateris Zoologici Index Univer- 



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Beechey (Capt. F. W.) Zoo- 

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1839 

 Contents.— Mammalia, by Sir J. Richardson, 

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ZOOLOGIE, par MM. Evdoux et Soir- 

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Brown's (T.) Illustrations of 



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Donovan's Natural History 



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Donovan (E.), Natural His- 

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Faraday's Experimental Re- 

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Falconer*s (Hugh) Palaeonto- 



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Harris's Aurelian ; a Natural 



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Lindley and Hutton*s Fossil 



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Leach (W. E.), Malacostraca 



Podophthalma Britanniae, or Descriptions of 

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Lowe's Fishes of Madeira, 



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