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Harper’s Library of Living Thought
DIAMONDS
BY SIR WILLIAM CROOKES
HARPER &
BROTHERS
LONDON & NEW YORK
THE CULLINAN DIAMOND.
From a photograph by the Author. (See [pages 76–79].)
Frontispiece.