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DURING the past summer, the members of the Seventh Botanical Expedition of the Johns Hopkins University witnessed displays of firefly activity in the British West Indies as spectacular in their way as any reported from the Orient.
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BUCK, J. Flashing of Fireflies in Jamaica. Nature 139, 801 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139801a0
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