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| Title | Animal Locomotion: Or, Walking, Swimming, and Flying, with a Dissertation on Aëronautics Internat. sci. series Volume 7 of International scientific series Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part II |
| Author | James Bell Pettigrew |
| Publisher | H. S. King & Company, 1873 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 19, 2007 |
| Length | 264 pages |
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