Correspondence with Ernst Mayr regarding the U.S. National Museum's proposal to create a data processing program for cataloging biological specimens, 1964.

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Correspondence with Ernst Mayr regarding the U.S. National Museum's proposal to create a data processing program for cataloging biological specimens, 1964.

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