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Front MatterSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Jul., 1939), pp. i-ivPublished by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/16948 .
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LINCOLN ....................................................... 57 EXTRACTS FROM TWO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF LIN-
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