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Clerke, Agnes Mary

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Mary T. Brück: deceased.

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Brück, M.T. (2014). Clerke, Agnes Mary. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_290

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