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Nature 



A WEEKLY 



ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 



VOLUME XCI 



MARCH to AUGUST, 1913 



" To the solid ground 

 Of Nature trusts the mind ivhich builds for aye." — Wordsworth 



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