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Plant fibers and civilization— cotton, a case in point

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    C. Earle Smith (Botanist)

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Paper delivered at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 23, 1964.

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Smith, C.E. Plant fibers and civilization— cotton, a case in point. Econ Bot 19, 71–82 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02971190

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