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Lear 1997, pp. 372–373. The photo essay, The Sea, was published in Johns Hopkins Magazine, May/June 1961; Carson provided the captions for Hartmann's photographs. Lear, Linda (1997). Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN0-8050-3428-5.
Lear 1997, pp. 375, 377, 400–407. Douglas's dissenting opinion on the rejection of the case, Robert Cushman Murphy et al., v. Butler et al., from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, is from March 28, 1960. Lear, Linda (1997). Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN0-8050-3428-5.
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