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Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science - Volume 26 1972 Academy Editors Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science Volume 26 Article 1 1972 Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science - Volume 26 1972 Academy Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas Recommended Citation Editors, Academy (1972) "Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science - Volume 26 1972," Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science: Vol. 26 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol26/iss1/1 This article is available for use under the Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0). Users are able to read, download, copy, print, distribute, search, link to the full texts of these articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This Entire Issue is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UARK. 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