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- ↑ Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435
- ↑ "Abrams, Leroy". Encyclopaedia Britannica . Vol. 1 (14 ed.). 1930. p. 61.
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