William Henry Holmes, Chief, Bureau of American Ethnology, ca. 1905
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Professor Jewett has devised a plan of facilitating the publication of catalogues of libraries, which bids fair to be of much importance to the literature of the country. This plan has been submitted for examination to a commission of gentlemen well acquainted with the subject, and has received from them a very favorable report recommending its adoption.- Joseph Henry, 1851
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BHL Institutional Council | Woods Hole | May 2013
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I am thrilled with what I have been able to find re: archaic mammary embryology some of which I had been hoping to find at the National Library of Medicine, and to get it through your program was a huge advantage. Last night I believe I requested and received 11 PDFs, all of which are essential to a review paper* I am completing.
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* “Evo-Devo of the Mammary Gland” by Oftedal, et al.Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia (May 2013)
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