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Book Synopsis Perry's Arcana by : Richard E. Petit
Download or read book Perry's Arcana written by Richard E. Petit and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-colored plates and over 300 text pages describing mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, mollusks, echinoderms, insects, trilobites and plants, alongside travelogues from far-off lands. It presented the first published illustration of the koala and many new genera and species, but astonishingly was then largely forgotten for nearly two hundred years. Perry’s work was deliberately ignored by his contemporaries in England, as he was a supporter of Lamarck rather than of Linnaeus, and the Arcana’s rarity—only thirteen complete copies are known to have survived—has helped maintain its shroud of mystery. Now at last this neglected gem has been revived for scientists, students, and aficionados of natural history. New scholarship is combined with modern digital reproduction techniques to do full justice to the beautiful plates. An up-to-date account of all the species is given, along with a full collation and extensive notes, by the eminent natural historian Richard E. Petit. The Arcana is technically interesting too, as its glowing plates were printed with variously colored inks to suppress their outlines. Its appeal will extend not only to academic libraries and scholars specializing in various branches of natural history and the history of science, but also to collectors of beautiful natural history books and enthusiasts of Regency Britain.
Book Synopsis Records of the Australian Museum by : Australian Museum
Download or read book Records of the Australian Museum written by Australian Museum and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by :
Download or read book The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Victorian Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contributions to tertiary and quaternary geology by :
Download or read book Contributions to tertiary and quaternary geology written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upside Down World written by Penny Olsen and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Eurocentric perceptions of natural history led to the flora and fauna of the new colony of New South Wales being viewed as deficient and inferior. The swans of the colony were black and eagles white, birds built shell-strewn avenues of sticks to cavort in and parrots walked on the ground. The mammals carried their young in a pouch and there were furred animals that laid eggs. This 'miscellany of the curious' fuelled the rage for Australian natural history amongst the upper classes of Europe, bringing income and, occasionally, fame to its collectors and documenters. On the ground, in the colony, it contributed to great change for the animals and, in some cases, extinction. In Upside Down World author Penny Olsen documents how our scientific knowledge evolved, using collectors' and naturalists' journals to enhance her stories.
Download or read book Mammalia written by Bannister and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1988-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliography of Australia by : John Alexander Ferguson
Download or read book Bibliography of Australia written by John Alexander Ferguson and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1975 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Koala written by Ann Moyal and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The koala is both an Australian icon and an animal that has attained ‘flagship’ status around the world. Yet its history tells a different story. While the koala figured prominently in Aboriginal Dreaming and Creation stories, its presence was not recorded in Australia until 15 years after white settlement. Then it would figure as a scientific oddity, despatched to museums in Britain and Europe, a native animal driven increasingly from its habitat by tree felling and human settlement, and a subject of relentless hunting by trappers for its valuable fur. It was not until the late 1920s that slowly emerging protective legislation and the enterprise of private protectors came to its aid. This book surveys the koala’s fascinating history, its evolutionary survival in Australia for over 30 million years, its strikingly adaptive physiognomy, its private life, and the strong cultural impact it has had through its rich fertilisation of Australian literature. The work also focuses on the complex problems of Australia’s national wildlife and conservation policies and the challenges surrounding the environmental, economic and social questions concerning koala management. Koala embraces the story of this famous marsupial in an engaging historical narrative, extensively illustrated from widely sourced pictorial material.
Book Synopsis New Catalogue of Misc. Works ... by : Bernard Quaritch
Download or read book New Catalogue of Misc. Works ... written by Bernard Quaritch and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bernard Quaritch by : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Download or read book Bernard Quaritch written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Zoological Catalogue of Australia by : Richard Schodde
Download or read book Zoological Catalogue of Australia written by Richard Schodde and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 1997 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Zealand Journal of Zoology written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record by :
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Report of the Trustees of the Australian Museum for the Year Ended 30 June ... by : Australian Museum
Download or read book Report of the Trustees of the Australian Museum for the Year Ended 30 June ... written by Australian Museum and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lepidoptera Exotica by : Arthur Butler
Download or read book Lepidoptera Exotica written by Arthur Butler and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
