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- 1 2 Directorship of the University Museum of Natural History, Notices, Oxford University Gazette , 23 January 2003.
- 1 2 Professor Jim Kennedy, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK.
- ↑ "James Kennedy". Kellogg College . Retrieved 27 July 2018.
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