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WESENBURG-LUND, Thienemann, and others have for years been emphasising the need for more detailed studies of tropical fresh waters. Having recently been enabled, through the help of the British Association and the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust, to make a short investigation of some lakes in the Rift Valley in Kenya, I may summarise here some of my observations.
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JENKIN., P. Biology of Lakes in Kenya. Nature 124, 574 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124574a0
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