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Gordon Memorial Lecture: The Biologist's Debt to the Domestic Fowl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2013

Marie E. Coates
Affiliation:
The Robens Institute of Industrial and Environmental Health and Safety, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, England
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Abstract

This lecture, the third given in memory of the late Dr R. F. Gordon, was delivered at the Connaught Hall, University of London, on 28th March, 1985. It was first published in British Poultry Science, Volume 27, pp 3–10, in March, 1986, and is here reprinted with thanks to the author and to the Board of British Poultry Science Ltd.

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Cambridge University Press 1987

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