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The Quarterly Journal ofMicroscopical Science

FOUNDED 1853

March 1963

VOL. 104 • PART I (THIRD SERIES, NO. 65)

Joint Editors

JOHN R. BAKER, D.Sc, F.R.S.

H. G. CALLAN, D.Sc.

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