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A SAMPLE of Lincoln wool grown near Hamilton in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, has been found to contain a small percentage of the fibres with two medullæ and even, in rare cases, with a few fragments of a third one. They varied from almost continuous to fragmental, frequently one being more broken than the other. The contents were of an irregular fine lattice structure.
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Brown, T. D., and Onions, W. J., Nature, 186, 93 (1960).
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JONES, G. Multiple Medullæ in Wool Fibres. Nature 193, 1001 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931001a0
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