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A possible relationship between aquatic invertebrates and avian botulism

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Authors
W. I. Jensen, Jack P. Allen

Great Lakes limnological investigations

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Authors
Alfred M. Beeton

The petroleum potential of the emerged and submerged Atlantic coastal plain of the United States

Increasing geological and geophysical information about the Atlantic continental shelf of the United States is changing the basis for judging the area's petroleum potential. No nation can afford to overlook an area that overlies 175,000 cubic miles (730,000 km3) of possibly petroliferous sediments (including the emerged coastal plain), though the first barrel of oil is yet to be produced. Seismic
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J. E. Johnston, James Trumbull, G. P. Eaton

Climatology and the problems of western grasslands

Sixty years after Coronado, Don Juan de Onate wrote the first reasonably good description of the High Plains. He was near the present site of Wichita, Kansas, in 1601, when he arrived a t a large rancheria, or temporary Indian camp, containing more than 5000 souls. Onate's account expressed wonderment at the great extent of the level land, a t the numerous small streams bordered with luxuriant gro
Authors
Luna Bergere Leopold

Computations in magnetic and gravity interpretation

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Authors
Roland G. Henderson, J. R. Marsheck

Resistance to furunculosis and ulcer disease in Eastern brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis

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Authors
S. F. Snieszko, C.E. Dunbar, G. L. Bullock

Brant of the Bering Sea — Migration and mortality

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Authors
Henry A. Hansen, Urban C. Nelson

Water problems in the present trend towards greater aridity

In the past few days we have heard a number of scientists, gathered here at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, discuss research work which, in one manner or another, bears on problems related to water resources. They have been discussing, particularly, problems in the field of climatology, and have speculated on the meaning of the results of this research. One of the problems under discussion wa
Authors
Luna Bergere Leopold

Data and understanding

In the year 1534 when Cabeza de Vaca escaped from the aborigines of southern Texas by whom he had been enslaved for six years, he made his way on foot from the vicinity of Galveston to the west coast of Mexico. Although his Relación was not printed until 1542, the verbal report of Cabeza de Vaca gave impetus to the growing interest in exploration of New Spain. Estevanico, the black, one of de Vaca
Authors
Luna Bergere Leopold