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Birdbanding

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Frederick Charles Lincoln

Poisonous snakes of the United States

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Notes on the early history of water-well drilling in the United States

The standard cable-tool drilling rig was invented and developed in drilling salt wells in the West Virginia-Ohio-Pennsylvania region during the twenty years following the successful completion of the first drilled well in 1808 by the Ruffnet brothers at the Great Buffalo Lick near Charleston, West Virginia. Some time previous to 1823, Levi Disbrow studied the drilling methods used in the western s
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C.W. Carlston

Sanitation in domestic rabbitries

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Frank D. McKenney

Directions for destroying house mice

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Branch of Predator and Rodent Control U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Vent diseases of domestic rabbits

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F.D. McKenney, J.E. Shillinger

Strategic minerals investigations, preliminary map: Black Mountain area, Rumford, Maine

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David M. Larrabee

The status of migratory game birds: 1942-43

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Early hydrographic work on an American lake

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J.W. Wells

A comparative study of the breeding bird population of Shenandoah Mountains, Virginia

WHILE working on habitat studies of the Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) in the George Washington National Forest during the late spring and early summer of 1941, the author found it possible to carry out a supplemental study on the relative abundance of the breeding birds of the area. Since considerable time was spent in traversing certain sections of the forest in search of Ruffed Grouse broods,
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R. E. Stewart
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

A general stress-strain-time formula

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P. G. Nutting

A new polymastigine flagellate, Costia pyriformis, parasitic on trout

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H.S. Davis
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center