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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 



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THE MENINGIOMAS Arising from the 

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By Harvey Gushing. Jackson, Wylie and Co. 

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This is the Macewen Memorial Lecture 

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DER MESKALINRAUSCH. Seine Ges- 

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18 marks Berlin 



6f x 10; v -f- 315 (paper) 

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A little handbook in the Sammlung 

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BIOCHEMISTRY 



THE ANTISTERILITY VITAMINE FAT 

 SOLUBLE E. 



By Herbert McLean Evans and George 0. Burr. 

 University of California Press 

 .00 10 x 13; 176 (paper) Berkeley 



A monograph regarding the fifth defi- 

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