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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Author: Travels in the Air
Author: James GlaisherPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Birds and Blossoms and what the Poets Sing of Them
Author: Susie Barstow SkeldingPublisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Galileo as a Critic of the Arts
Author: Erwin PanofskyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401762031
Category : Art
Languages : it
Pages : 61
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The Butterflies of Venezuela: Nymphalidae I (Limenitidinae, Apaturinae, Charaxinae)
Author: Andrew F. E. NeildPublisher: Apollo Books
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Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Part 1 of The Butterflies of Venezuela was a pioneering work of its kind for South America, being the first authoritative volume in a comprehensive faunistic identification series. The series will prove invaluable to all who wish to learn about the remarkable and diverse butterfly fauna of this country and continent. Approximately 1000 species of adult Nympbalidae, Papilionidae, and Pieridae will be treated in the four-part series, equivalent to over one-third of the total Neotropical species in these families. Drawing on over 20 years of personal research in the field, in collections, and in libraries, the detailed accounts for each species encapsulate all that is known about their identification, distribution, behaviour, habitat, and foodplants. The text, which has been written to appeal to specialists and amateurs alike, has been collated from a wealth of published and unpublished sources. It includes extensive commentary on the systematics and nomenclature employed, and provides detailed notes designed to permit the easy identification of every Venezuelan butterfly. General notes on early stages are provided in the introduction to each genus, and where available those of one representative species are fully described. Readers also benefit from the inclusion of an extensive bibliography, which in Part 2 alone comprises almost 800 works fully referenced in the text. Unlike many other guides, the photographic colour plates illustrate every subspecies, generally showing both sexes and wing surfaces for each, plus several representative specimens for highly variable taxa. In addition, a large number of type specimens are reproduced, many of them for the first time. Part 1 cover 276 species including 2 new species and 23 new subspecies. Part 2 treats 196 species incl. 355 subspecies and the colour plates figures over 450 type specimens. 8 new species and 95 new spubspecies are described. 4 neotypes and 10 lectopypes are designated. Part 3 is projected to treat the Papilionidae, Brassolinae, Danainae, and first part of Satyrinae (Pronophilina and Erebiina). Part 4 will cover the family Pieridae and the remaining Satyrinae and Heliconiinae.
Buffon
Author: Jacques RogerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801429187
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
A biography of a premier French scientist of the Enlightenment and the director of France's Royal Botanical Garden, using Buffon's enormous literary production as the major source of insight into his and his age's beliefs about the natural world. Includes bandw illustrations from his Natural History. First published in 1989 as Buffon, un philosophe au Jardin du Roi, by Librarie Artheme Fayard. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ornithology from Aristotle to the Present
Author: Erwin StresemannPublisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Milkweed Butterflies, Their Cladistics and Biology
Author: Phillip Ronald AckeryPublisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The War of the Worlds: Large Print
Author: H. G. WellsPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091588417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..." So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killing machines - armed with heatrays - that are impervious to attack. Advancing upon London they destroy everything in their path. Everything, except the few humans they collect in metal traps. Victorian England is a place in which the steam engine is state-of-the-art technology and powered flight is just a dream. Mankind is helpless against the killing machines from Mars, and soon the survivors are left living in a new stone age. Includes the original Warwick Goble illustrations.