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Ophiuridae of the West Indies by Leah May Gaymon, 1893

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Archives T1893 G287 593.4 57280 Preface In this thesis the writer attempts to classify and describe some of the Olphiuidae of the West Indies collected by the Bahama expedition in the summer of 1893. An apology should be made for presuming to write a scientific paper. The work has been done especially for the drill in the independent, exhaustive study, as far as possible, of a group of animals. Attention has been confined to external characters and those mouth parts that could be determined without dissection. Classification has been based on Professor Theodore Lyman's system. While this thesis has served its 57280
 
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