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THE second part of this valuable work on the natural history of Wicken Fen includes an account of the dragon flies, the bugs, the Ichneumonidæ and some of the other less popular families of insects, the spiders, the wood lice, the leeches and the mollusca. It also contains an account of some observations on the hydrogen ion concentration of the waters of the Fen, and on its Phytoplankton, and an interesting essay by Dr. A. H. Evans on the history of Wicken and Burwell Fens.
The Natural History of Wicken Fen.
Edited by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner. Part 2. Pp. 65–171. (Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes, 1925.) 6s. net.
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The Natural History of Wicken Fen . Nature 116, 495 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116495b0
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