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Chapter 9 Ancestry of the Horse

In Animals of the Past

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Frederic Lucas

Prior to the emergence of paleontology and comparative anatomy as scientific disciplines at the end of the 18th century, it was generally kn…

The Formative Period after the Civil War

In History of the Jews in America

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Peter Wiernik

Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from Vilna when he was twenty. He also wrote in Hebrew and…

Preface

In Dinosaurs, With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections

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William Diller Matthew

America has had a fascination with dinosaurs, particularly since the wild enthusiasm of Jurassic Park and its sequels. The term "dinosa…

Preface

In Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty

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Stephen Coleridge

Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological…

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