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  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Samuel A. Meier.</note>
  <note>Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Harvard University, 1986)</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <note>Bibliography: p. [251]-264.</note>
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