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100 1 _aRichardson, John,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald, under the Command of Captain Henry Kellet, R.N., C.B., during the Years 1845-51 :
_bFossil Mammals /
_cJohn Richardson ; edited by Edward Forbes.
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1854.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (228 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aCambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 May 2016).
520 _aNaval surgeon, Arctic explorer and natural historian, Sir John Richardson (1787-1865) published many works, several of which are reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection, notably the four-volume Fauna Boreali-Americana. At the Haslar Royal Naval Hospital, where he worked towards the end of his career, Richardson built up a library and museum that became renowned for natural history research. His published work was fuelled by his own voyages and the specimens sent back from other expeditions, as was the case for this illustrated work, completed in 1854. Richardson describes the zoological specimens collected during the 1845-51 voyage of the survey ship H.M.S. Herald, which had sailed into Arctic seas and took part in the search for Sir John Franklin. The collected fauna include fossil mammals from the ice cliffs at Eschscholtz Bay in Alaska, first discovered in 1816 by Otto von Kotzebue and his naturalists.
700 1 _aForbes, Edward,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108073684
830 0 _aCambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107447271
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