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Animal Communities in Temperate America. 



By Victor E. Shelford, Instructor in Zoology in the University of Chicago. 



This volume by Dr. Shelford presents the principles of field ecology, illustrated by the more widely distributed 

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In several chapters the animal communities of lakes, streams, swamps, forests, prairies, and various soils and topo- 

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Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization. 



By Jacques Loeb, Member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. 



This new work presents the first complete treatment of the subject of artificial parthenogenesis in English. Pro- 

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