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- ↑ "Library and Archive Catalog". Royal Society. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
- ↑ Kenneth Mason, revised by Elizabeth Baigent, 'Austen, Henry Haversham Godwin- (1834–1923)' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) odnb/33438
