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| Title | The Student's Reference Work: A Cyclopaedia for Teachers, Students, and Families, Volume 2 The Student's Reference Work: A Cyclopaedia for Teachers, Students, and Families, Chandler Belden Beach |
| Editors | Chandler Belden Beach, Graeme Mercer Adam |
| Publisher | F.E. Compton, 1901 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Oct 2007 |
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