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Identifier: stnicholasserial301dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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THE PEARY METEORITE.
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THE OKAPI. By A. H. Knight. Every reader of St. Nicholas has doubtless and some very unpleasing in their appearance;visited zoos many times and become well but I am quite sure none of them has everacquainted with the different animals he has seen such a t^ueer-lookmg creature as the okapi.seen there. Some of them are very beautiful He is in fact, a newly discovered animal, and 56 not a variety of any known species, so you can well see his importance and the interest that his discovery has aroused—particularly in the scientific world. Animal species have been developed from a few forms, and we can find many of the links that connect them; but here and there are gaps, and it is often difficult to find the links that complete the chain. The okapi fills one of these gaps. He stands be-tween the giraffe and antelope, and partakes of the character of each. He is found in theforests of central Africa, and bears a strongresemblance to a fossil beast whose skeleton,though larger, is of about the same

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