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United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth

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GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA-Continued.

THE UNITED STATES COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES.

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Coast of California.

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State Survey of Kentucky. Prof. N. S. Shaler.....

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ANTHROPOLOGY. By Professor OTIS T. MASON, Columbian University,

ZOOLOGY. By Dr. A. S. PACKARD, JR., Director of the Peabody Acad-

*The chapter on the vertebrates has been furnished by Professor Theodore Gill,

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