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The geographical distribution of animals : with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the earth's surface / by Alfred Russel Wallace ; with maps and illustrations ; in two volumes

Author:
Wallace, Alfred Russel 1823-1913  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Mason Science College DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 v., [27] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill., col. maps ; 22 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Date:
1876
Topic:
Zoogeography  Search this
Paleontology  Search this
Geography  Search this
Call number:
QL101 .W18 1876
QL101.W18 1876
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The book of nature, or, The history of insects : reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the anatomical analysis of many species : and illustrated with copper-plates : including the generation of the frog, the history of the ephemerus, the changes of flies, butterflies, and beetles : with the original discovery of the milk-vessels of the cuttle-fish, and many o...

Title:
Book of nature
History of insects
Author:
Swammerdam, Jan 1637-1680  Search this
Boerhaave, Herman 1668-1738  Search this
Editor:
Hill, John 1714?-1775  Search this
Translator:
Flloyd, Thomas  Search this
Engraver:
Fritzsch, J. C. G. approximately 1720-1802  Search this
Publisher:
Seyffert, C. G. active approximately 1756-1764  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E., 1937- DSI  Search this
Subject:
Swammerdam, Jan 1637-1680  Search this
Physical description:
[4], xx, [8], 236, 153, [1], lxiii, [1], [12] pages, LIII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm (fol.)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Pre-Linnean works
Early works
Date:
1758
Topic:
Insects  Search this
Invertebrates  Search this
Mollusks  Search this
Zoology  Search this
Call number:
QL362 .S96 E1758
QL362 .S9313 1758
QL362.S96 E1758
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edanmdm:siris_sil_384419

The genera vermium exemplified by various specimens of the animals contained in the orders of the Intestina et Mollusca Linnaei : drawn from nature / by James Barbut

Title:
genres des vers, exemplifiés par divers échantillons des animaux contenus aux ordres des intestins et mollusques de Linné
genera vermium of Linnaeus. Part 2d, Exemplified by several of the rarest and most elegant subjects in the orders of the Testacea, Lithophyta, and Zoophyta animalia
Barbut's Genera vermium DSI
Barbut's Worms DSI
Author:
Barbut, James  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Earlham, John Gurney DSI  Search this
Gurney, Joseph John DSI  Search this
Ferguson, Thomas DSI  Search this
Bayer, Frederick M. DSI  Search this
Dall, William Healey 1845-1927 DSI  Search this
Dolphin, John DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 volumes, [27] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colored) ; 27 cm (4to)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Early works
Date:
1783
1788
Topic:
Invertebrates  Search this
Worms  Search this
Mollusks  Search this
Corals  Search this
Call number:
QL362 .B24 1783
QL362.B24 1783
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Fredric Hasselquists M.D. Societ. reg. scient. Upal. & Stiockholm, soc. Iter Palæstinum, eller, Resa til Heliga Landet : förrättad ifrån år 1749 til 1752 : med beskrifnigar, rön anmäkingar, öfver de märkvärdigaste naturalier, på Hennes Kongl. Maj.ts befallning / utgifven af Carl Linnæus

Author:
Hasselquist, Fredrik 1722-1752  Search this
Linné, Carl von 1707-1778  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[16], 619, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Books
Place:
Palestine
Date:
1757
Topic:
Natural history--Early works to 1800  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Early works to 1800  Search this
Call number:
DS106 .H359 1757
DS106.H359 1757
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Classes Conchyliorum / auctore Carolo Augusto de Bergen ..

Title:
Classes Conchyliorvm
Author:
Bergen, Carl August von 1704-1759?  Search this
Former owner:
Dall, William Healey 1845-1927 DSI  Search this
Cuvier, Georges baron 1769-1832 DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Charpentier, W. DSI  Search this
Lea, Isaac 1792-1886 DSI  Search this
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France) DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
132 p. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Type:
Classification
Early works to 1800
Date:
1760
Topic:
Mollusks  Search this
Call number:
QL406 .B49 1760
QL406.B49 1760
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edanmdm:siris_sil_384282

Natuurlyke historie der plant-dieren : bevattende de algemeene schetzen der geslachten en korte beschryvingen der bekende zoorten : met de bygevoegde naamen der schryveren in het Latyn beschreeven / door P.S. Pallas ... ; vertaald, met aanmerkingen en afbeeldingen voorzien door P. Boddaert

Author:
Pallas, Peter Simon 1741-1811  Search this
Boddaert, Pieter approximately 1730-1795 or 1796  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- ,- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 pts. in 1 v., 14 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1798
Topic:
Ctenophora  Search this
Cnidaria  Search this
Corals  Search this
Sponges  Search this
Call number:
QL379 .P1612 1798
QL379.P1612 1798
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edanmdm:siris_sil_384421

Les mollusques : avec un atlas / par M. G.P. Deshayes

Author:
Deshayes, G. P (Gérard Paul) 1795-1875  Search this
Cuvier, Georges baron 1769-1832  Search this
Former owner:
Prashad, Baini 1894- DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- ,- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 v., [152] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (139 col.), port. ; 28 cm
Type:
Classification
Pictorial works
Date:
1836
1845
[1836-1845]
Topic:
Mollusks  Search this
Call number:
QL404 .D45 1836
QL404.D45 1836
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edanmdm:siris_sil_399268

A preliminary discourse on the study of natural history / by William Swainson

Title:
Study of natural history
Author:
Swainson, William 1789-1855  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Dall, William Healey 1845-1927 DSI  Search this
Walker, R. L. DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 462, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 18 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Date:
1834
Topic:
Natural history--Study and teaching  Search this
Call number:
QH51 .S93 1834
QH51.S9Z
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edanmdm:siris_sil_914992

Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette la Bonite. Zoologie, par MM. Eydoux et Souleyet

Title:
Zoologie
Voyage de la Bonite DSI
Author:
Eydoux, Fortuné 1802-1841  Search this
Souleyet, Louis François Auguste 1811-1852  Search this
Illustrator:
Bevalet, Antoine-Germain 1779-approximately 1850  Search this
Chazal, Antoine 1793-1854  Search this
Gerbe, Z.  Search this
Delahaye, Charles active 1841-1852  Search this
Meunier, Jean Baptiste 1786-1858  Search this
Oudart, P. L (Paul Louis) 1796-1860  Search this
Prêtre, Jean Gabriel  Search this
Riocreux, Alfred 1820-1912  Search this
Vaillant, A. J. B. 1817-1852  Search this
Werner, J. C (Jean Charles) active 1830-1860  Search this
Engraver:
Annedouche, Alfred Joseph 1833- ,-  Search this
Davesne active 1838  Search this
Forget, E. active 1841-1852  Search this
Fournier, Amable Nicolas 1789-1854  Search this
Thomas, Jules active 1841-1852  Search this
Giraud, Pierre Francois Eugène 1806-1881  Search this
Lebrun, L.  Search this
Schmelz Mme.  Search this
Sébin active 1838  Search this
Visto, J. P. active 1841-1852  Search this
Printer of plates:
Rémond, N.  Search this
Publisher:
Bertrand, Arthus active 1800-1857  Search this
Former owner:
Dall, William Healey 1845-1927 DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
MacBrayne, David 1817-1907 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- ,- DSI  Search this
Associated name:
National Capital Shell Club (Washington, D.C.) DSI  Search this
Subject:
Bonite Expedition (1836-1837)  Search this
Physical description:
2 volumes 25 cm + atlas of 101 plates (some color) 50 x 34 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Date:
1841
1852
1841-1852
Topic:
Animals  Search this
Zoology  Search this
Voyages around the world  Search this
Call number:
QL5 .E97 1841
Data Source:
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edanmdm:siris_sil_89892

Johannes Goedartius De insectis, in methodum redactus : cum notularum additione operâ M. Lister ... : item appendicis ad Historiam animalium Angliæ, ejusdem M. Lister

Title:
De insectis, in methodum redactus
Insects DSI
Author:
Goedaert, Johannes 1617-1668  Search this
Lister, Martin 1638?-1712  Search this
Lister, Martin 1638?-1712 Historiae animalium Angliae tres tractatus  Search this
Former owner:
Rawstorne, Edward DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[8], 356, [4], 45, [3] p., [21] folded leaves of plates : ill. (etchings) ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1685
Topic:
Insects--Metamorphosis  Search this
Insects--Development  Search this
Insects--Larvae  Search this
Call number:
QL494.5 .G59 L1685
Data Source:
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edanmdm:siris_sil_919725

The conchologist's first book, or, A system of testaceous malacology, arranged expressly for the use of schools : in which the animals, according to Cuvier, are given with the shells, a great number of new species added, and the whole brought up, as accurately as possible, to the present condition of the science / by Edgar A. Poe ; with illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells, presenting a...

Title:
Conchologist's first book
System of testaceous malacology
Author:
Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849  Search this
Brown, Thomas 1785-1862 Conchologist's text-book  Search this
Lithographer:
Duval, Peter S. 1804 or 1805-1886  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Brainerd, George B. DSI  Search this
Gill, Theodore 1837-1914 DSI  Search this
Dall, William Healey 1845-1927 DSI  Search this
Possible former owner:
Noyes, Daniel P. DSI  Search this
Physical description:
156 pages, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations (lithographs) ; 18 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Date:
1839
Topic:
Mollusks  Search this
Call number:
QL405 .P74X 1839
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_925097

Encyclopédie d'histoire naturelle, ou, Traité complet de cette science d'après les travaux des naturalists les plus éminents de tous les pays et de toutes les époques : Buffon, Daubenton, Lacépède, G. Cuvier, F. Cuvier, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Latreille, De Jussieu, Brongniart, etc., etc. : ouvrage résumant les observations des auteurs anciens et comprenant toutes les découvertes modernes...

Title:
Encyclopédie d'histoire naturelle
Traité complet de cette science d'après les travaux des naturalists les plus éminents de tous les pays et de toutes les époques
Author:
Chenu, Jean Charles 1808-1879  Search this
Desmarest, E (Eugène) 1816-1890  Search this
Former owner:
Johnson, Richard Irwin 1925- DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- ,- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[8], 312, [4], 74 p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. (steel engravings) ; 29 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Date:
1858
[1858]
Topic:
Crustacea  Search this
Mollusks  Search this
Ctenophora  Search this
Cnidaria  Search this
Call number:
QL435 .C52 1858
QL435.C52 1858
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edanmdm:siris_sil_383686

P. Gasparis Schotti, regis curtani ... Physica curiosa, sive, Mirabilia naturæ et artis libris XII. comprehensa : quibus pleraq[ue], quæ de angelis, dæmonibus, hominibus, spectris, energumenis, monstris, portentis, animalibus, meteoris, &c. rara, arcana, curiosaq[ue] circumferuntur, ad veritatis trutinam expenduntur : variis ex historia ac philosophia petitis disquisitionibus excutiuntur, & innume...

Author:
Schott, Gaspar 1608-1666  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 volumes, 57 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. (4to)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Pre-Linnean works
Date:
1662
Topic:
Demonology  Search this
Abnormalities, Human  Search this
Monsters  Search this
Zoology  Search this
Call number:
BF1520 .S37 1662
BF1520.S37 1662
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_384291

An history of animals : containing descriptions of the birds, beasts, fishes, and insects, of the several parts of the world, and including accounts of the several classes of animalcules, visible only by the assistance of microscopes ... : illustrated with figures / by John Hill ..

Author:
Hill, John 1714?-1775  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[8], 584, [4] p., 28 leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Type:
Pre-Linnean works
Date:
1752
Topic:
Zoology  Search this
Call number:
QL41 .H54 1752
QL41.H54 1752
Data Source:
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edanmdm:siris_sil_384408

Illustrations of the fossil conchology of Great Britain and Ireland : with the descriptions and localities of all the species / by Captain Thomas Brown ..

Author:
Brown, Thomas 1785-1862  Search this
Aikman, A. T (Alexander T.) active 19th century  Search this
Engraver:
Lizars, W. H (William Home) 1788-1859  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 273, [1] p., [117] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 33 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Great Britain
Date:
1849
Topic:
Mollusks, Fossil  Search this
Call number:
QE801.B895X 1849
Data Source:
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edanmdm:siris_sil_384409

Ricreatione dell'occhio e della mente nell'osseruation' delle Chiocciole : proposta a' curiosi delle opere della natura / dal p. Filippo Buonanni della Compagnia di Giesù ; con quattrocento, e cinquanta figure di testacei diuersi, sopra cui si spiegano molti curiosi problemi

Author:
Buonanni, Filippo 1638-1725  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[16], 384, [16] p., 110 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Type:
Electronic resources
Date:
1681
Topic:
Mollusks  Search this
Call number:
QL403 .B94 1681
QL403.B94 1681
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_389056

Leaves from the note book of a naturalist by W.J. Broderip

Title:
Naturalist's note book
Author:
Broderip, William John 1789-1859  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman),) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Illustrator:
Sands, Robert 1782-1855  Search this
Publisher:
John W. Parker and Son  Search this
Printer:
Savill and Edwards  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 413, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates illustrations 20 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Date:
1852
Topic:
Animal behavior  Search this
Zoology  Search this
Call number:
QL81 .B865 1852
Data Source:
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edanmdm:siris_sil_1058495

Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium / quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål ... ; post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr ; adjuncta est materia medica kahirina atque tabula maris Rubri geographica

Author:
Forsskål, Peter 1732-1763  Search this
Niebuhr, Carsten 1733-1815  Search this
Engraver:
Haas, Jonas 1720-1775  Search this
Former owner:
Saussure, Henri de 1829-1905 DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Jekel, Henri 1816-1891 DSI  Search this
Bibliothèque de la Feuille des jeunes naturalistes DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
19, [1], xxxiv, [2], 164 p., [1] leaf of plates : map ; 27 cm. (4to)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Place:
Egypt
Arabian Peninsula
Date:
1775
Topic:
Zoology  Search this
Materia medica  Search this
Medicine, Arab  Search this
Call number:
QL337.E3 F73 1775
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_92099

Voyage autour du monde, entrepris par ordre du roi. Exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820 / par M. Louis de Freycinet

Title:
Uranie et Physicienne voyage
Voyage autour du monde, fait par ordre du roi
Author:
Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de 1779-1842  Search this
Sponsor:
Corbière, Jacques-Joseph-Guillaume-François-Pierre comte de 1766-1853  Search this
Clermont-Tonnerre, Aimé-Marie-Gaspard duc de 1779-1865  Search this
Author:
Quoy, Jean René Constant 1790-1869 Zoologie  Search this
Gaimard, Paul 1790-1858 Zoologie  Search this
Gaudichaud, Charles 1789-1854 Botanique  Search this
Illustrator:
Arago, Jacques 1790-1855  Search this
Bevalet, Antoine-Germain 1779-approximately 1850  Search this
Blanchard, E. active 1824  Search this
Chazal, Antoine 1793-1854  Search this
Eud. Deslongchamps M (Jacques Amand) 1794-1867  Search this
Gaudichaud, Charles 1789-1854  Search this
Huet  Search this
Prêtre, Jean Gabriel  Search this
Provost, A. active 1834-1855  Search this
Oudart, P. L (Paul Louis) 1796-1860  Search this
Pellion, A. active 1824  Search this
Taunay, Aimé-Adrien 1803-1828  Search this
Artistic director:
Lamouroux M (Jean Vincent Félix) 1779-1825  Search this
Engraver:
Coutant, L (Jean Louis Denis) 1776-approximately 1831  Search this
Publisher:
Pillet, Pierre-Augustin-Jacques-François 1779-1857  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Printer:
Imprimerie royale (France)  Search this
Printer of plates:
Imprimerie de Langlois  Search this
Bookseller:
Wheldon & Wesley DSI  Search this
Subject:
Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de 1779-1842 Travel  Search this
Uranie (Corvette)  Search this
Physicienne (Corvette)  Search this
Physical description:
7 volumes in 9 ; 31 cm + 4 atlas volumes (352 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 50-57 cm)
Type:
Electronic resources
Date:
1824
1844
Topic:
Scientific expeditions  Search this
Voyages around the world  Search this
Call number:
QL5 .Q9 1824
G420.F8 F74 1824
QL5.Q9 1824
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_403573

Fauna Groenlandica : systematice sistens animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificum, triuiale, vernaculumque : synonyma auctorum plurium, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, vsum, capturamque singuli, prout detegendi occasio fuit / maximaque parte secundum proprias obseruationes Othonis Fabricii ..

Title:
Favna groenlandica
Author:
Fabricius, Otto 1744-1822  Search this
Former owner:
Mearns, Edgar Alexander 1856-1916 DSI  Search this
Lŭnd, L. DSI  Search this
Clark, Austin Hobart 1880-1954 DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Dwight, Jonathan 1858-1929 DSI  Search this
Tucker, Marcia Brady DSI  Search this
Dall, William Healey 1845-1927 DSI  Search this
Zoologische Staatssammlung München Bibliothek DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
XVI, 452 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. (etching) ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Place:
Greenland
Date:
1780
Topic:
Zoology  Search this
Call number:
QL105 .F12 1780
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_434422

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