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Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library


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Text Appearing After Image: u in stem. Nat. size. Photo, THE BUTTERFLY AND ITS ALLIES to spin the cocoons on prepared twigs or straw. A fewdays after the cocoon is completed its inhabitant is killed


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