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References
- ↑ Praeger, Robert Lloyd (1969). The Way that I Went: An Irishman in Ireland. Dublin: Allen Figgis. pp. 10–12.
- ↑ Jackson, Patrick Wyse; Jackson, Peter Wyse (1992). "The Irish Naturalist: 33 years of natural history in Ireland 1892–1924". Irish Naturalists' Journal. 24 (3): 95–101.
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