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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ↑ Desmond, Ray, ed. (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists. CRC Press. p. 173. ISBN 9780850668438.
- ↑ "The Trees of Northern Bengal by A M. Cowan & J. M. Cowan". catalog entry, Smithsonian Libraries & Archives.
- ↑ International Who’s Who of Women, 2002
- ↑ Professor Pauline Harrison, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sheffield University.
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. Cowan.
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