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Preservation of Animal Remains
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Preservation of Animal Remains

  • JOHN PARKINSON1 

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IN a belated copy of NATURE, dated Jan. 12, which reached me a short while ago, I read with much interest a review of a recent work written by Prof. Weigelt. In that review, entitled the “Preservation of Animal Remains”, Prof. Watson enumerates modes of death which are “likely to affect large numbers of individuals at the same time”. To those given the following may perhaps be added.

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PARKINSON, J. Preservation of Animal Remains. Nature 124, 56 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124056b0

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