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Reviving an Old and Valuable Collection of Microscope Slides Through the Use of Citizen Science Cover

Reviving an Old and Valuable Collection of Microscope Slides Through the Use of Citizen Science

By: John Pring,  Lesley Wyborn and  Neal Evans  
Open Access
|Nov 2019

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Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 29, 2019
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Accepted on: Oct 14, 2019
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Published on: Nov 14, 2019
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2019 John Pring, Lesley Wyborn, Neal Evans, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.