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The Muscidae of Northern Canada, Alaska, and Greenland (Diptera)

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Hugh C. Huckett
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The Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada , Volume 97 , Supplement S42 , 1965 , pp. 5 - 369
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This investigation was sponsored in its beginning by the Arctic Institute of North America by means of a grant-in-aid and has been continued with the support of funds provided by the Entomology Researbh Institute of the Canada Department of Agriculture. Leave of absence from duties was kindly granted by the Dean of the College of Agriculture and by the Head of the Department of Entomology at cornell University in order to carry on studies at Ottawa and Washington for short periods each year, Generous cooperation and assistance by members of the Taxonomic Units of the Entomology Research Institute at Ottarva and the Entomology Research Division of the United States Department of Agriculture at Washington is acknowledged gratefully by the author.

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Professor Emeritus, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Formerly Associate Professor, Long Island Vegetable Research Farm, Riverhead, N.Y Present addres: Box 38, R.F.D. No. 1, Riverhead, New York 11901.

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