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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Such was the general status of Alcidine literature as it came from the hands of the writers of the eighteenth century. We have fourteen well-known valid species, and indications of the fifteenth (uria cotumba).
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