Volume III. Molluscs and Brachiopods. By the Rev. A. H. Cooke, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of King's College, Cambridge; A. E. Shipley, M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; and F. R. C. Reed, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. Illustrated. Medium 8vo. 17s. net.
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