Guide to the Maurice Hugh Farrier Collection,
1889-1911, 1951-1979
Collection Number MC 00123
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Collection Information
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- Abstract:
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The Maurice Hugh Farrier Collection includes personal and professional correspondence, entomology research materials, and a reprint collection of articles and works by internationally acclaimed scientists writing on mites and other insects.
Maurice Hugh Farrier received a B.S. in Zoology and Entomology in 1948 and a Masters degree in Entomology in 1950, both from Iowa State College. Farrier subsequently earned a Ph.D. in Entomology from North Carolina State College (University) in 1955. That same year, he was appointed Assistant Professor at North Carolina State in the Department of Entomology. In 1960, Farrier was promoted to Associate Professor of Entomology, and in 1961, he became Associate Professor of Entomology and Forestry. In 1971, Farrier was promoted to full professor. He retired in 1991.
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27695-7111 USA
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Processed by
- Jane V. Charles, May 1999
- Encoded by
- Nancy J. Kaiser, Katherine M. Wisser
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Descriptive Summary
- Title
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Maurice Hugh Farrier Collection,
1889-1911, 1951-1979
- Call Number
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MC 00123
- Creator
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Farrier, Maurice H.
- Extent
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49.5 linear feet, 99 archival boxes
- Repository
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North Carolina State University Libraries
Special Collections Research Center
- Location
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For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff.
- Language
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English
Information for Users
- Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.
- Acquisitions Information
Donated by Maurice Hugh Farrier in 1976 (Accession no. 1976-0018, 1976-0019), 1979 (Accession no. 1979-0018), 1991 (Accession no. 1991-0004), and 1998 (Accession no. 1998-0002).
- Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Maurice Hugh Farrier Collection, MC 123, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Copyright Notice
The nature of the NCSU Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NCSU Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
- Proccessing Information
Processed by Jane V. Charles
Encoded by Nancy J. Kaiser, Katherine M. Wisser
Biographical Note
Maurice Hugh Farrier was born on September 18, 1926, in Washington County, Iowa. In 1948, he received a B.S. in Zoology and Entomology, and in 1950, a Masters degree in Entomology, both from Iowa State College. Between 1948 and 1949, Farrier assisted the state entomologist of Iowa. In 1951, he attended Duke University to study Acarology. Farrier served as the research assistant in the Department of Entomology at North Carolina State College from 1950 to 1952, and again from 1954 to 1955. Farrier also served in the U.S. Army Reserve for twenty years. Between 1952 and 1954, he spent twenty-two months on active duty in Korea and at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as the Post Entomologist. He served as the Commanding and Laboratory Officer of the U.S. Army 207 in 1953 and 1954. Farrier subsequently earned a Ph.D. in Entomology from North Carolina State College in 1955. That same year, he was appointed Assistant Professor at North Carolina State in the Department of Entomology. In 1960, Farrier was promoted to Associate Professor of Entomology, and in 1961, he became Associate Professor of Entomology and Forestry. In 1971, Farrier was promoted to full professor. He retired in 1991.
Memberships in honorary and professional organizations include the American Association for Advancement of Science, North Carolina Academy of Science, North Carolina Entomological Society, Entomological Society of Washington, Canadien Entomological Society, International Society of Soil Science, American Institute of Biological Sciences, National Agricultural Colleges and Teachers Association, Entomological Society of America, Society of Systematic Zoology, Xi Sigma Pi (Forestry Honor Society), and Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. Farrier, a member of Sigma Xi, served as the North Carolina Chapter's secretary (1967-1968) and treasurer (1968-1969). He was also an active member of Gamma Sigma Delta, for which he served as secretary/treasurer (1961-1963), vice president (1964-1965), and historian (1976-1987). Farrier's awards include Outstanding Teacher, School of Forestry, in 1963, and the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Southern Insect Work Conference in 1970.
In 1986, Farrier was inducted into the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at North Carolina State University. That same year, the Friends of the Library at North Carolina State University, an organization that Farrier avidly supported, made him a Life Member. In 1989, he received the first Faculty Award presented by the Friends of the Library for outstanding contributions to the development and use of the NCSU Libraries. On September 30, 1991, Farrier retired as Professor of Entomology and Forestry at North Carolina State University after thirty-six years of teaching and research service.
Farrier is an internationally recognized bibliographer and taxonomic specialist on mites. During his career, Farrier received several grants to fund his work, including grants from the United States Forest Service and the United States Department of Agriculture. Since 1951, he has published a number of articles, on topics such as insect conditions, mite control, entomology training, advances in acarology, and studies on mites,hornworms, beetles, moths, caterpillars, and ticks. Farrier also presented papers at conferences, did consultant work, chaired several graduate committees, served on many advisory councils, and published major works, including the annotated checklist and bibliography he coauthored with Michael Hennessey, Farrier's former pupil (see below).
Scope and Content Note
This collection documents Farrier's research and professional activities during his tenure as a professor of Entomology and Forestry in the departments of Entomology and Forestry at North Carolina State University. One of Farrier's main subjects of research was the Veigaiidae (Acarina). In March 1957 he published "A Revision of the Veigaiidae (Acarina)," which is included in this collection, as is "Mites of the Superfamily Parasitoidea (Acarina: Mesostigmata) Associated with Dendroctonus and Ips (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)" (December, 1969). Farrier also wrote numerous articles for scholarly journals, news columns in various North Carolina newspapers, and other works. The bulk of the collection consists of a comprehensive compilation of original publications, reprints, and annotated photocopies of articles on mites written by scientists from all over the world. Farrier and his student Michael K. Hennessey used these articles to compile and publish Soil-Inhabiting and Free-Living Mesostigmata (Acari-Parasitiformes) from North America: an Annotated Checklist and Bibliography and Index (1993), a taxonomic index on mites. Farrier and Hennessey also co-authored Systematic Revision of Thirty Species of Free-Living, Soil-Inhabiting Gamasine Mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of North America, 1988, and Mites of the Family Parasitidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) Inhabiting Forest Soils of North and South Carolina, 1989. The first series, called Working Files, consists of personal and professional correspondence, and information gathered on various projects. The second series, Organizational Papers, consists of an index to international Acarina collections, papers relating to an acarology conference,several acarology directories, and papers of the Association of Economic Entomologists. The Reprints series contains various articles and works that a multitude of internationally acclaimed scientists wrote on both mites and insects.
Online Catalog HeadingsThe following terms have been used to index the guide to the collection in the NCSU Library's online catalog. Individuals
Corporate Entities
- North Carolina State University--Dept. of Entomology--Faculty
Topics
- Acaricides--Acaricide Resistance
- Acarology--Acarologists
- Beetles
- Chiggers (Mites)--Control
- Entomology--Entomologists
- Entomology--Projects
- Entomology--Teachers
- Mites--Biological Control--Physiology
- Mites as Biological Pest Control Agents and as Carriers of Disease
- Ticks--Control--Insecticide Resistance--as Carriers of Disease
- Zoology--Zoologists
Detailed Description of the Collection
Working Files
These files include correspondence with fellow professionals and organizations with regard to potential and current projects, information on the North Carolina State Entomology program, research methods, publication interests, memberships in various organizations and clubs, speaking engagements and lectures, proposals, identifications of insects, work as both a professor and researcher, and pest control (insect repellents, insecticides, and pesticides). There is some personal correspondence, including a number of thank you letters in this series that provide insight into Farrier's background and character. This series is arranged chronologically. there is a photograph of a specimen that Farrier identified as a millipede in the folder labeled January 1965-June 1965.
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| August, 1951 - December, 1954 |
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| January, 1958 - December, 1958 |
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| January, 1959 - December, 1959 |
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| January, 1960 - December, 1960 |
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| January, 1961 - December, 1961 |
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| January, 1962 - December, 1962 |
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| January, 1963 - December, 1963 |
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| January, 1964 - June, 1964 |
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| July, 1964 - December, 1964 |
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| January, 1965 - June, 1965 |
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| July, 1965 - December, 1965 |
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Organizational Papers
This series consists of An Index to the Acarina Collections of the World (to the Family Level) (1979), edited by JohnKethley, and sponsored by the United States Naval Medical Research Unit Number Three. Material pertaining to the first International Conference on Acarology at Colorado State University, held in September, 1963, which Farrier attended, is housed here as well. In addition, the series contains several Acarology Directories, called Acarologists of the World, from 1954 to 1979. Early copies of presidential addresses made at the annual meetings of the Association of Economic Entomologists, from 1889 to 1911, are also included.
This series is arranged alphabetically.
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| Acarina Collections Index, January, 1979 |
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| Acarology Conference, September, 1963 |
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| Acarology Directories, March, 1954 - December, 1959 |
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| Acarology Directories, April, 1961 - April, 1965 |
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| Acarology Directories, March, 1968 - January, 1979 |
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| Association of Economic Entomologists, November, 1889 - August, 1895 |
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| Association of Economic Entomologists, August, 1896 - December, 1902 |
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| Association of Economic Entomologists, December, 1903 - December, 1911 |
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Reprints
The myriad original publications, reprints, and annotated photocopies that Farrier gathered over the years in order to compilea taxonomic index on Acari (mites) comprises this series. Mites under study include soil mites, tomato russet mites, predacious mites, European red mites, house dust mites, feather mites, broad mites, two-spotted spider mites, false spider mites, red spider mites, northern fowl mites, nasal mites, spiny rat mites, citrus rust mites, grain mites, gall mites, orchard mites,parasitic mites, water mites, cotton mites, tropical rat mites, bulb mites, itch mites, wheat curl mites, moss mites, peach bud mites, and carmine spider mites, to name but a few. Other major species under study include ticks, chiggers, and beetles. Studies of beetles include works on the dung beetle, bark beetle, and southern pine beetle. Studies on ticks include those onlone star ticks, gulf coast ticks, and American dog ticks. Works on chiggers focus on bat chiggers, reptilian chiggers, and North American chiggers. A disparate group of entomologists and other scientists carried out their work in the following countries: Japan, New Zealand, the United States, Puerto Rio, Africa, Iceland, Canada, Mexico, India, Britain, Ireland, Ecuador, Poland,Brazil, the Netherlands, Greece, Germany, Cuba, Thailand, Korea, Scotland, Greenland, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Nepal, China, Iran, Ethiopia, Israel, and Italy, making Farrier's compilation effort a truly global project. Topics associated with the study of mites include pest control, methods of extraction, research techniques, species behavior, identification of new species, feeding habits, and species adaptation, among others. Numerous dissertations are located in this series, as well as catalogs, indexes,booklets, and bibliographies. This series is arranged alphabetically by name of the first author if more than one author contributed to the work. there are three folders located at the end of the collection in box 99 labeled "miscellaneous." These include a folder titled Miscellaneous, which contains a slide box list, a bibliographic list, and a list of major works not in library holdings. The second folder, labeled Miscellaneous-Berlese, contains various data that Farrier gleaned from the Berlese collection, such as drawings, identifications, and notes. The third folder, labeled Miscellaneous-Veigaia, contains material that pertains to Farrier's attempt to create an index on the Veigaiaidae, which includes a copy of his Annotated Bibliography of the World Literature on Veigaiaidae Oudemans (1939).
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| Abou-Awad, Badawai A. |
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| Ahlstrom, Kenneth R. |
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| Andre, Marc, 1923-1938 |
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| Athias-Binche, Francoise |
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| Athias-Henriot, C., 1957-1960 |
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| Athias-Henriot, C., 1961-1966 |
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| Athias-Henriot, C., 1967-1968 |
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| Athias-Henriot, C., 1969-1973 |
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| Athias-Henriot, C., 1975-1982 |
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| Atyeo, Warren T., 1958-1964 |
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| Atyeo, Warren T., 1966 |
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| Atyeo, Warren T., 1967-1985 |
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| Baker, Edward W., 1944-1951 |
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| Baker, Edward W., 1952-1963 |
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| Baker, Edward W., 1964-1975 |
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| Baker, Edward W., 1976-1987 |
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| Balcazar Ruiz, Ignacio |
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| Balogh, Janos, 1938-1959 |
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| Balogh, Janos, 1960-1977 |
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| Balogh, Janos, 1978-1984 |
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| Balogh, Janos, 1985-1990 |
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| Balogh, P., 1984-1989 |
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| Banks, Nathan, 1903-1904 |
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| Banks, Nathan, 1905-1909 |
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| Banks, Nathan, 1910-1916 |
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| Banks, Nathan, 1917-1954 |
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| Batra, Suzanne W. Tubby |
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| Beck, Ludwig |
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| Benham, Jr., Gerald S. |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1876-1887 |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1888-1892 |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1892-1902 |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1903-1904 |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1904 |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1905-1910 |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1910-1913 |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1913 |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1913-1914 |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1914-1916 |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1916-1919 |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1920-1923 |
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| Berlese, Antonio, 1927-1990 |
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| Bernini, Fabio, 1975-1976 |
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| Bernini, Fabio, 1977-1982 |
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| Blaszak, Czeslaw, 1969-1975 |
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| Blaszak, Czeslaw, 1976-1985 |
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| Blauvelt, William Ernest |
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| Bregetova, N. G., 1949-1955 |
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| Bregetova, N. G., 1956-1958 |
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| Bregetova, N. G., 1960-1964 |
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| Bregetova, N. G., 1967-1983 |
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| Brickhill, Clive Desmond |
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| Briones, Magdalena Lopez |
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| British Museum (Natural History) |
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| Bronswijk, J. E. M. H. |
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| Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarentine |
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| Cadigan, Jr. Francis C. |
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| Camin, Joseph H., 1949-1954 |
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| Camin, Joseph H., 1955-1971 |
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| Cancela Da Fonseca, J. P. |
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| Canestrini, Giovanni, 1876-1882 |
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| Canestrini, Giovanni, 1884-1897 |
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| Chamkrachang, Prasert |
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| Channabasavanna, G. P. |
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| Chant, D. A., 1955-1959 |
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| Chant, D. A., 1960-1965 |
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| Chant, D. A., 1971-1983 |
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| Chant, D. A., 1984-1987 |
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| Cornejo, Beatriz Villa |
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| Costa, Michael, 1969-1981 |
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