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By doctor E. MASCHA [The following paper on the " Structure of Wing-Feathers " gives an account of an investigation conducted by Doctor E. Mascha under the direction of Professor R. von Lendenfeld, of the Imperial German University in Prague. The original German text of this paper is to be published in the Zcitschrift fiir zvisscnschaftUchc Zoologic. Doctor von Lendenfeld, who was a competitor in the Hodgkins competition of the Smithsonian Institution, has more recently been awarded a grant in aid of his research on the anatomy of the flight organs, the investigation being continued under his direction by Doctor Mascha, as here described.]
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