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1 19 Adams, S. H. 1941. A sack of snakes. New Yorker 17(3):30–34.
2 89 Allen, E. R., and M. P. Merryday. 1940. A snake in the hand—is worth two in the grass for medical research, and the job of capturing and keeping them sheds interesting sidelights on their habits and peculiarities. Natural History 46:234–239.
3 200 Anonymous. 1858. A winter in southern Florida: extracts from the diary of a sportsman. Letter VI [V]. Porter's Spirit of the Times 4(May 8):146–147.
4 629 Atkins, S., and J. MacMahon. 1967. The Zabski site, Merritt Island, Florida. Florida Anthropologist 20:133–145.
5 861 Bartram, J., and W. Bartram. 1957. John and William Bartram's America: selections from the writings of the Philadelphia naturalists. [Edited with an introduction by H. G. Cruickshank.] Devin-Adair Company, New York, New York, USA. 418pp.
6 862 Bartram, W. 1791. Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws; containing, an account of the soil and natural productions of those regions, together with observations on the manners of the Indians. James & Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 522pp. Bartram, W. 1947. The travels of William Bartram [edited by Mark van Doren]. Dover, New York, New York, USA. 414pp.
7 1035 Blatchley, W. S. 1902. A nature wooing at Ormond by the Sea. Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 245pp.
8 1036 Blatchley, W. S. 1931. My nature nook or notes on the natural history of the vicinity of Dunedin, Florida. Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 302pp.
9 1161 Brinton, D. G. 1869. A guide-book of Florida and the South, for tourists, invalids and emigrants, with a map of the St. John River. George MacLean, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 136pp.
10 1721 Davidson, J. W. 1889. The Florida of to-day: a guide for tourists and settlers. D. Appleton and Company, New York, New York, USA. 254pp.
11 1739 De Sola, C. R. 1935. Herpetological notes from southeastern Florida. Copeia 1935:44–45.
12 2449 Forbes, J. G. 1964. Sketches, historical and topographical, of the Floridas; more particularly of East Florida. [A facsimile reproduction of the 1821 edition.] University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 226pp.
13 8415 Franz, R., and I. R. Quitmyer. 2005. A fossil and zooarcheological history of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in the southeastern United States. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 45:179–199.
14 2826 Hallinan, T. 1923. Observations made in Duval County, northern Florida, on the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus). Copeia 1923:11–20.
15 2862 Harcourt, H. 1889. Home life in Florida. John P. Morton and Company, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. 433pp.
16 3117 Holman, J. A., and C. Clausen. 1984. Fossil vertebrates associated with Paleo-Indian artifact at Little Salt Spring, Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4:146–154.
17 3148 Hubbard, H. G. 1893. The Florida land tortoise-gopher, Gopherus polyphemus. Science 22:57–58.
18 3539 Knight, C. F. 1871. Remarks on the Florida turtles. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 14:16–18.
19 3808 Loennberg, E. 1894. Notes on reptiles and batrachians collected in Florida in 1892 and 1893. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 17:317–339.
20 4071 McKay, D. B., editor. 1959. Pioneer life. Volume I. Southern Publishing Company, Tampa, Florida, USA. 292pp.
21 4136 Means, D. B. 1988. Keynote address: John Muir's walk through the Southeast: one hundred seventeen years later. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council 5:1–3.
22 4137 Means, D. B. 1988. Management recommendations for the gopher tortoise in longleaf pine ecosystems. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council 6:41–56.
23 4295 Mickler, L. E. 1986. Gopher stew. North Florida Living 6(1):68, 77.
24 4635 Neill, W. T., H. J. Gut, and P. Brodkorb. 1956. Animal remains from four preceramic sites in Florida. American Antiquity 21:383–395.
25 4761 Orson [pseudonym]. 1836. Familiar sketches of life in Florida. Knickerbocker [New-York Monthly Magazine] 8(September):276–288.
26 5090 Reid, G. K. 1991. The gopher tortoise: landlord of the sandhills. Florida Naturalist 64(1):3–5.
27 5176 Roosevelt, T. 1917. Notes on Florida turtles. American Museum Journal 17:288–291.
28 5891 Trowbridge, C. C. 1952. (Letter). Florida Wildlife 5(9):4.
29 6148 Williams, J. L. 1962. The Territory of Florida or sketches of the topography, civil and natural history, of the country, the climate, and the Indian tribes, from the first discovery to the present time. [A facsimile reproduction of the 1837 edition, with an introduction by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.] University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 304pp.
30 6149 Williams, J. L. 1976. A view of West Florida. [A facsimile reproduction of the 1827 edition with an introduction and index by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.] University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 178pp.

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