Author: Richard Bowdler SharpePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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A Monograph of the Alcedinidae: Or, Family of Kingfishers
Author: Richard Bowdler SharpePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Zoological Catalogue of Australia
Author: Richard SchoddePublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9780643060371
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Sacred Ibis
Author: Prof. W. G. HalePublisher: Sacristy Press
ISBN: 1910519138
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
This book follows the adventures of Henry Baker Tristram, an explorer, priest, and founding member of the British Ornithologists' Union. In the book are over 80 colour plates and a reproduction of Charles Darwin's first letter to Tristram.
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Author: Bernard Quaritch
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Bird Illustrators
Author: Christine Elisabeth JacksonPublisher: Sterling/Main Street
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology
Author: Henry A. McGhiePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526116022
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838–1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on previously unpublished archival material. Dresser travelled widely and spent time in Texas during the American Civil War. He built enormous collections of skins and eggs of birds from Europe, North America and Asia, which formed the basis of over 100 publications, including some of the finest bird books of the late nineteenth century. Dresser was a leading figure in scientific society and in the early bird conservation movement; his correspondence and diaries reveal the inner workings, motivations, personal relationships and rivalries that existed among the leading ornithologists.
Dispelling the Darkness
Author: John Van WyhePublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814458813
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.T H Huxley (1887). Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Southeast Asia. This book is based on the most thorough research ever conducted on Wallace's voyage. Closely connected, but worlds apart, Darwin and Wallace's stories hold many surprises. Did Darwin really keep his theory a secret for twenty years? Did he plagiarise Wallace? Were their theories really the same? How did Wallace hit on the solution, and on which island? This book reveals for the first time the true story of Darwin, Wallace and the discovery that would change our understanding of life on Earth forever.