Conway Zirkle
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American botanist and historian of science
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Conway Zirkle's Degrees
- PhD Botany University of Pennsylvania
- Masters Botany University of Pennsylvania
- Bachelors Botany University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Conway Zirkle was an American botanist and historian of science. Zirkle was professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He was highly critical of Lamarckism, Lysenkoism and Marxian biology.
Conway Zirkle's Published Works
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- The Beginnings of Plant Hybridization (1936) (122)
- Sociology and Philosophy (1961) (118)
- THE CAMBIUM AND ITS DERIVATIVE TISSUES (1930) (111)
- Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859 (1959) (70)
- THE USE OF N-BUTYL ALCOHOL IN DEHYDRATING WOODY TISSUE FOR PARAFFIN EMBEDDING. (1930) (67)
- The Early History of the Idea of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters and of Pangenesis (1946) (62)
- SOME ODDITIES IN THE DELAYED DISCOVERY OF MENDELISM (1964) (49)
- Nucleolus in Root Tip Mitosis in Zea mays (1928) (42)
- Development of Normal and Divergent Plastid Types in Zea Mays (1929) (39)
- Nucleoli of the Root Tip and cambium of Pinus Strobus (1931) (32)
- THE CAMBIUM AND ITS DERIVATIVE TISSUES : VI. THE EFFECTS OF HYDROGEN ION CONCENTRATION IN VITAL STAINING. (1931) (31)
- Death of a science in Russia : the fate of genetics as described in "Pravda" and elsewhere (1949) (23)
- Evolution, Marxian biology, and the social scene (1959) (23)
- Early ideas on inbreeding and cross-breeding. (1952) (22)
- Death of a science in Russia (1949) (20)
- THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF PLASTIDS IN LUNULARIA VULGARIS, ELODEA CANADENSIS, AND ZEA MAYS (1927) (20)
- Animals Impregnated by the Wind (1936) (20)
- Interim report of the Committee on Histologic Mounting Media; resinous media. (1950) (19)
- Final report of the committee on histologic mounting media. (1953) (19)
- Combined Fixing, Staining and Mounting Media (1940) (19)
- Gregor Mendel & His Precursors (1951) (18)
- The effect of hydrogen-ion concentration upon the fixation image of various salts of chromium (1928) (17)
- The Inheritance of Acquired Characters and the Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis (1935) (17)
- Vacuoles in primary meristems (1932) (16)
- Citation of Fraudulent Data. (1954) (16)
- The role of Liberty Hyde Bailey and Hugo de Vries in the rediscovery of Mendelism (1968) (15)
- MORE RECORDS OF PLANT HYBRIDIZATION BEFORE KOELREUTER (1934) (15)
- Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Malthus and the United States Census (1957) (13)
- ACETO-CARMIN MOUNTING MEDIA. (1937) (13)
- The structure of the chloroplast in certain higher plants (1926) (12)
- A Conscience in Conflict. The life of St. George Jackson Mivart. Jacob W. Gruber. Published for Temple University Publications by Columbia University Press, New York, 1960. x + 266 pp. Illus. $6.50 (1960) (12)
- The evolution of biology (1965) (11)
- Origin of Cultivated Plants. Alphonse de Candole (1960) (11)
- Fixation images with chromates and acetates (1928) (8)
- SOME FORGOTTEN RECORDS OF HYBRIDIZATION AND SEX IN PLANTS 1716–1739 (1932) (8)
- CYTOLOGY AND SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF PORPHYRIDIUM CRUENTUM NAEGELI (1920) (7)
- The Death of Gaius Plinius Secundus (23-79 A.D.) (1967) (7)
- Pavlov's Beliefs. (1958) (7)
- FORERUNNERS OF DARWIN (1959) (6)
- History of Biology: Georges Cuvier, Zoologist . A study in the history of evolution theory. William Coleman. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1964. xii + 212 pp. Illus. $4.75. (1964) (6)
- Brothers of the Spade. Correspondence of Peter Collinson of London, and of John Custis, of Williamsburg, Virginia. 1734-1746 (1950) (5)
- SOME FIXATIVES FOR BOTH NUCLEI AND MITOCHONDRIA. (1927) (5)
- A SCIENTIST IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC (1935) (4)
- Cytological fixation with the lower fatty acids their compounds and derivatives (1933) (4)
- The beginnings of plant hybridization. Morris Arboretum Monographs. I. (1935) (4)
- Evolution after Darwin. vol. 1, The Evolution of Life. Its origin, history, and future. Sol Tax, Ed. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1960. 629 pp. Illus. $10 (1960) (4)
- The World Was My Garden. David Fairchild (1940) (3)
- History of Biology. (Book Reviews: Georges Cuvier, Zoologist. A study in the history of evolution theory) (1964) (3)
- BUTYL ALCOHOL AND CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE. (1934) (3)
- Some synthetic resins in combined fixing, staining and mounting media. (1947) (3)
- The Theory of Concentric Spheres: Edmund Halley, Cotton Mather, & John Cleves Symmes (1947) (3)
- Our Splintered Learning and the Status of Scientists. (1955) (3)
- Darwin and the Beagle. Alan Moorehead (1970) (2)
- John and William Bartran's America (1958) (2)
- Further Notes on Pangenesis and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters (1936) (2)
- The theoretical basis of Michurinian genetics. (1949) (2)
- United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook. (1943) (2)
- Eighty-First Critical Bibliography of The History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (To 1 January 1956) (1956) (2)
- Book Review:Heredity and Its Variability Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, Theodosius Dobzhansky (1947) (2)
- A possible early eighteenth century record of introgression in oaks. (1950) (2)
- Soil Exhaustion, the Territorial Limitation of Slavery, and the Civil War (1943) (2)
- Aldehydes as cytological fixatives (1933) (2)
- HOW MAIZE GOT TO EUROPE (1952) (2)
- Jan ingenhousz, plant physiologist. With a history of the discovery of photoynthesis: By Howard S. Reed, Professor Emeritus of Plant Physiology, University of California. Chronica Botanica, 11, Nos. 5 and 6, 285–396 (1949). Price $3.00 (1952) (2)
- The Jumar or Cross between the Horse and the Cow (1941) (2)
- Book Review:Wild Men in the Middle Ages: A Study in Art, Sentiment and Demonology Richard Bernheimer (1953) (1)
- Perforating carcinomas of the colon. (1961) (1)
- Book Review:Two Billion Acre Farm: An Informal History of American Agriculture Robert West Howard (1947) (1)
- Some Numerical Results of Selection upon Polyhybrids. (1926) (1)
- Book Review:Hunger and History: The Influence of Hunger on Human History E. Parmalee Prentice (1940) (1)
- Book Review:Tempo and Mode in Evolution George Gaylord Simpson (1947) (1)
- Book Review:The Citrus Industry. Vol. I, History, Botany and Breeding Herbert John Webber, Leon Dexter Batchelor (1945) (1)
- Book Review:Science, Servant of Man: A Layman's Primer for the Age of Science I. Bernard Cohen (1949) (1)
- Book Review:The Romance of Coffee: An Outline History of Coffee and Coffee Drinking through a Thousand Years William H. Ukers (1949) (1)
- Book Review:Garden Islands of the Great East David Fairchild (1944) (1)
- Evolution in the Soviet Union@@@Death of a Science in Russia. (1950) (1)
- Book Review:Botanic Gardens of the World, Material for a History C. Stuart Gager (1938) (1)
- Book Review:Trees and Test Tubes: The Story of Rubber Charles Morrow Wilson (1944) (1)
- Science and the Social Order. Bernard Barber (1953) (1)
- THE FIRST RECOGNIZED PLANT HYBRID (1958) (1)
- Book Review:Herbals. Their Origin and Evolution. A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 Agnes Arber (1939) (1)
- Amines in cytological fixing fluids (1933) (1)
- Book Review:Man's Food, Its Rhyme or Reason Mark Graubard (1944) (1)
- Book Review:Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist Ernst Mayr (1944) (1)
- Rocky Mountain Naturalists. Joseph Ewan (1951) (1)
- A History of Genetics. A. H. Sturtevant (1966) (1)
- Book Review:Genetics and the Origin of Species Theodosius Dobzhansky (1939) (1)
- Indian Corn in Old America. Paul Weatherwax (1955) (1)
- Soviet science : a symposium presented on December 27, 1951, at the Philadelphia meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1952) (1)
- The Involuntary Destruction of Science in the USSR (1953) (1)
- Classic Papers in Genetics. James A. Peters (1962) (1)
- Book Review:The American Plant Migration: I. The Potato Berthold Laufer (1939) (1)
- Book Review:A History of Luminescence from the Earliest Times until 1900 E. Newton Harvey (1959) (1)
- Book Review:Gregor Mendel und das Schicksal seiner Vererbungsgesetze Ingo Krumbiegel (1959) (1)
- Book Review:Soviet Education for Science and Technology. Alexander G. Korol (1958) (0)
- III. Xenia in Ζeα Mays (1935) (0)
- Book Review:Water, Land and People Bernard Frank, Anthony Netboy (1951) (0)
- 9. Marxian Biology and Beautiful Letters (1959) (0)
- Book Review:John Muir, Father of Our National Parks. Charles Norman (1958) (0)
- Book Review:John Ray, Naturalist. His Life and Works. Charles E. Raven (1951) (0)
- Douglas of the Fir. Athelstan George Harvey (1949) (0)
- 6. The Machinery of Heredity, 1900-50 (1959) (0)
- 11. Marxian Biology and Sociology (1959) (0)
- Book Review:The Sloane Herbarium J. E. Dandy, James Britten (1959) (0)
- VIII. THE CLIMAX OF T H E ARGUMENTS (1949) (0)
- I. The Earliest Descriptions of Hybrids (1935) (0)
- 8. Evolution and the Future of Mankind (1959) (0)
- The Fig. Ira J. Conduit (1949) (0)
- Plants of the Bible.A. W. Anderson (1958) (0)
- Darwin and the Modern World View. John C. Greene. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1961. viii + 141 pp. $3.50 (1962) (0)
- Horses: The Story of the Horse Family in the Modern World through Sixty Million Years of History. George Gaylord Simpson (1952) (0)
- Book Review:A History of Horticulture in America to 1860. U. P. Hedrick (1951) (0)
- Book Review:A History of Agriculture in Europe and America N. S. B. Gras (1941) (0)
- Symposium on Biological Communications (1961) (0)
- Book Review:The Biological Basis of Human Freedom Theodosius Dobzhansky (1957) (0)
- Plants, Man and Life. Edgar Anderson (1953) (0)
- Book Review:John William Draper and the Religion of Science Donald Fleming, W.E. Calvert (1951) (0)
- Book Review:The Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory Frank R. Lillie (1946) (0)
- 10. Marxian Biology in the Communist World (1959) (0)
- Book Review:Food America Gave the World A. Hyatt Verrill, Otis W. Barrett (1938) (0)
- Book Review:The Englishman's Food J. C. Drummond, Ann Wilbraham (1941) (0)
- Butyl Alcohol and Cytological Technique (1934) (0)
- IV. Plant Hybridization before Koelreuter (1935) (0)
- Book Review:Variation and Evolution in Plants G. Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. (1951) (0)
- The treatment of burns in the small hospital. (1954) (0)
- Book Review:The Avian Egg Alexis L. Romanoff, Anastasia J. Romanoff (1950) (0)
- Book Review:Index Rafinesquianus. The Plant Names Published by C. S. Rafinesque with Reductions, and a Consideration of his Methods, Objectives and Attainments Elmer D. Merrill (1951) (0)
- Patterns of Research and Changing Library Needs (1951) (0)
- Book Review:Plough and Pasture: The Early History of Farming E. Cecil Curwen, Gudmund Hatt (1954) (0)
- The Origin of Adaptations. Verne Grant. Columbia University Press, New York, 1963. 704 pp. $12.50. This book, which was originally scheduled for publication in July, was reviewed from galleys. It is now scheduled for publication on 23 September (1963) (0)
- VI. THE WITCH HUNT GETS UNDER WAY (1949) (0)
- Nature and Man's Fate. Garrett Hardin (1960) (0)
- 5. The Impact of Evolution on Society and on the Social Studies (1959) (0)
- Louis Agassiz. A life in science. Edward Lurie. University ofChicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1960. 449 pp. Illus. $7.50 (1960) (0)
- Book Review:A History of Livestock Raising in the United States, 1607-1860 James Westfall Thompson (1944) (0)
- Carl Linnœus. Knut Hagberg , Alan Blair (1953) (0)
- Book Review:The Lungfish, the Dodo, and the Unicorn: An Excursion into Romantic Zoology Willy Ley (1949) (0)
- Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book. Edwin Morris BettsThomas Jefferson and the Scientific Trends of His Time. Charles A. BrowneJefferson and Agriculture. Everett E. EdwardsPapers Read before the American Philosophical Society in Celebration of the Bicentennial of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson (1947) (0)
- Science and Common Sense. James B. Conant (1951) (0)
- An Important Friendship: Darwin and Henslow: The Growth of an Idea . Letters, 1831-1860. Nora Barlow, Ed. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1967. xii + 251 pp., illus. $6.50. (1968) (0)
- DAVID JORAVSKY. Soviet Marxism and Natural Science, 1917-1932. Pp. xiv, 433. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. $7.50 (1961) (0)
- Book Review:Factors of Evolution I. I. Schmalhausen, Isadore Dordick, Theodosius Dobzhansky (1950) (0)
- Science in Liberated Europe.J. G. Crowther (1950) (0)
- The Soviet Academy of Sciences . Hoover Institute Studies, Series E: Institutions, No. 3. Alexander Vucinich. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1956. 157 pp. $2. (1956) (0)
- In the Name of Science. Martin Gardner (1953) (0)
- Book Review:John Torrey, A Story of North American Botany Andrew Denny Rodgers III (1943) (0)
- Degrees and Titles. (1961) (0)
- The Science of Life. A Picture history of biology. Gordon Rattary Taylor. McGraw-Hill, New york, 1963. 368 pp. Illus. $9.95 (1963) (0)
- Evolutionary Thought in America. Stow Person (1951) (0)
- Origins of American Scientists. A Study Made Under the Direction of a Committee of the Faculty of Wesleyan University.R. H. Knapp , H. B. Goodrich (1954) (0)
- Our Plundered Planet. Fairfield Osborn (1949) (0)
- Book Review:The Badianus Manuscript Emily Walcott Emmart, Joannes Badianus (1941) (0)
- III. A CONTROVERSY WITH A TWISTED ENDING, 1943-47 (1949) (0)
- Our Biological Inheritance (1958) (0)
- Book Review:Dragons in Amber. Further Adventures of a Romantic Naturalist Willy Ley (1951) (0)
- Book Review:American Botany, 1873-1892; Decades of Transition Andrew Denny Rodgers, III (1947) (0)
- FATHER ADAM AND THE RACES OF MAN Some Notes on Medieval Anthropology (1954) (0)
- Book Review:The Old Company's Garden at the Cape and Its Superintendents Mia C. Karsten (1952) (0)
- Der Irrweg des Darwinismus. Robert Nachtwey (1961) (0)
- Plants and the Atmosphere. Leonard K. Nash (1952) (0)
- Book Review: C. S. Rafinesque. A Life of Travels, Being a Verbatim and Literatim Reprint of the Original and only Edition {Philadelphia 1836). Foreword by E. D. Merrill; critical index by F. W. Pennell. (1945) (0)
- 4. The Development of Evolution Theory from 1870 to 1900 (1959) (0)
- Population Problems (1947) (0)
- Book Review:John Merle Coulter. Missionary in Science Andrew Denny Rodgers III (1946) (0)
- Aceto-Carmin Mounting Media (1937) (0)
- Darwin and Henslow: The Growth of an Idea. Letters, 1831-1860. Nora Barlow, Ed. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1967. xii + 251 pp., illus. $6.50 (1968) (0)
- Book Review:Human Fertility: The Modern Dilemma Robert C. Cook (1952) (0)
- Book Review:Darwin's Vision and Christian Perspectives Walter J. Ong (1962) (0)
- Evolution by Natural Selection. Charles Darwin , Alfred Russell WallaceDarwin's Century. Loren EiseleyA Century of Darwin. S. A. Barnett (1959) (0)
- Book Review:Food, War and the Future E. Parmalee Prentice (1945) (0)
- The Prevalence of People. Marston BatesHungry Generations: The Nineteenth Century Case against Malthusianism. Harold A. BonerStanding Room Only. The Challenge of Over-Population. Karl Sax (1956) (0)
- Book Review:The Mighty Leaf: Tobacco through the Centuries Jerome E. Brooks (1953) (0)
- Book Review:America's Crop Heritage: The History of Foreign Plant Introduction by the Federal Government Nelson Klose (1951) (0)
- Book Review:The Natural World of Louise Dickinson Rich. Louise Dickinson Rich (1963) (0)
- Charles Darwin (0)
- Book Review:Freedom from Want: A Survey of the Possibilities of Meeting the World's Food Needs E. E. DeTurk (1949) (0)
- Fifty Years of Plant Physiology. Th. Weevers (1951) (0)
- Book Review:Ideologie und Forschung in der Sowjetischen Naturwissenschaft. Arnold Buchholz (1956) (0)
- Book Review:Aldrovandi on Chickens. The Ornithology of Ulisse Aldrovandi (1600). Vol. II, Book XIV L. R. Lind (1964) (0)
- Book Review:Bernard Eduard Fernow, a Story of North American Forestry Andrew Denny Rogers III (1951) (0)
- Pre-Mendelian Genetics: Genetik: Grundlagen, Ergebnisse, und Probleme in Einzeldarstellungen . Hans Stubbe. Fischer, Jena, 1963. xii + 232 pp. Illus. Paper, DM. 18.10. (1963) (0)
- Book Review:One Man in His Time N. M. Borodin (1957) (0)
- Book Review:The New Genetics in the Soviet Union P. S. Hudson, R. H. Richens (1947) (0)
- Book Review:Plants and Plant Science in Latin America Frans Verdoorn (1947) (0)
- Book Review:Botanical Latin: History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary William T. Stearn (1966) (0)
- Book Review:Historical Aspects of Organic Evolution Philip G. Fothergill (1954) (0)
- Genetik: Grundlagen, Ergebnisse, und Probleme in Einzeldarstellungen. Hans Stubbe. Fischer, Jena, 1963. xii + 232 pp. Illus. Paper, DM. 18.10 (1963) (0)
- Salamanders and Other Wonders. Willy Ley (1956) (0)
- The Wheats of Classical Antiquity. Naum Jasny (1947) (0)
- Book Review:Liberty Hyde Bailey. A Story of Plant Science Andrew Denny Rogers III (1950) (0)
- 7. Evolution Theory in the Twentieth Century (1959) (0)
- Soviet Genetics. Alan G. Morton (1952) (0)
- Book Review:Botanik der Gegenwart und Vorzeit in Culturhistorischer Entwickelung Karl F. W. Jessen (1949) (0)
- Book Review:A Short History of the Plant Sciences Howard S. Reed (1942) (0)
- 1. Our Evolutionary Background (1959) (0)
- An Overlooked 18th Century Contribution to Plant Breeding and Plant Selection (1968) (0)
- Book Review:A Source Book of Agricultural Chemistry Charles A. Browne (1946) (0)
- Book Review:The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form. Agnes Arber (1951) (0)
- Not the Philadelphia disease. (1949) (0)
- V. Résumé of Later Hybridization (0)
- The Nature of Natural History. Marston Bates (1951) (0)
- Book Review:Die Evolutionstheorie, das Grundproblem der modernen Biologie Georg Schneider (1952) (0)
- The Nature-Nurture Controversy. Nicholas Pastore (1950) (0)
- IX. THE END OF T H E ROAD (1949) (0)
- XI. THE HERESY HUNT SPREADS (1949) (0)
- 3. The Beginnings of Marxian Biology (1959) (0)
- V. THE BEGINNING OF THE END (1949) (0)
- Book Review:The Conflict of Science and Society C. D. Darlington (1950) (0)
- VII. A FORLORN AND FUTILE STAND (1949) (0)
- A Yearbook of Botanical Bibliography (1966) (0)
- The Lysenko Affair . By Joravsky David. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1970. Pp. 459. $13.95.) (1973) (0)
- Book Review:The Origin of Life and the Evolution of Living Things. An Environmental Theory Olan R. Hyndman (1953) (0)
- Book Review:English Naturalists from Neckam to Ray Charles E. Raven (1948) (0)
- XII. REVERBERATIONS ABROAD (1949) (0)
- Book Review:The History and Social Influence of the Potato Redcliff N. Salaman (1951) (0)
- II. Degeneration and the Delayed Discovery of Plant Hybrids (1935) (0)
- Book Review:The Mind and the Eye: A Study of the Biologist's Standpoint Agnes Arber (1953) (0)
- Selected Botanical Papers. Irving William Knobloch, Ed. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1963. xiv + 311 pp. Paper, $3.95 (1963) (0)
- 2. The Theory of Evolution ca. 1870 (1959) (0)
- IV. GENETICS IN RUSSIA AFTER TEN YEARS OF COLD OFFICIAL WARFARE (1949) (0)
- Asa Gray . A. Hunter Dupree. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1959. 506 pp. Illus. $7.50. (1959) (0)
- Yearbook of Agriculture, 1936, 1937. (1938) (0)
- Book Review:Coming into Being among the Australian Aborigines Ashley-Montagu, M. F. (1938) (0)
- Book Review:Edward Palmer. Plant Explorer of the American West. Rogers McVaugh (1958) (0)
- II. THE DECLINE OF GENETICS, 1939-40 (1949) (0)
- Book Review:The Origin, Variation, Immunity and Breeding of Cultivated Plants N. I. Vavilov, K. Starr Chester (1952) (0)
- History of the Rose. Roy E. Shepard (1954) (0)
- Book Review:The Soviet Impact on Society. A Recollection. Dagobert Runes (1954) (0)
- The Facts of Life. C. D. Darlington (1957) (0)
- Elizabethan Views on Sex in Plants (1932) (0)
- Pavlov's Beliefs (1958) (0)
- Book Review:Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book Edwin Morris Betts (1954) (0)
- Book Review:Flour for Man's Bread John Storck, Walter Dorwin Teague (1953) (0)
- Achieving Style in Writing. (1955) (0)
- Book Review:A Professor's Story of Hybrid Corn Herbert K. Hayes (1964) (0)
- William Bartram: Botanical and Zoological Drawings, 1756-1788. Joseph Ewan, Ed. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1968. xiv + 180 pp., illus. $35. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 74 (1969) (0)
- Book Reviews: Tomorrow Is Already Here (1955) (0)
- Book Review:The American and His Food Richard Osborn Cummings (1941) (0)
- Book Review:Apes and Ape Lore in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance H. W. Janson (1953) (0)
- Readings in Botany: Selected Botanical Papers . Irving William Knobloch, Ed. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1963. xiv + 311 pp. Paper, $3.95. (1963) (0)
- Indefinables. (Book Reviews: Measuring our Universe; In Search of the Miraculous) (1950) (0)
- Naturalist at Large. Thomas Barbour (1944) (0)
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