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020 _a9781139151948 (ebook)
020 _z9781108041706 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
100 1 _aRichardson, John,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFauna Boreali-Americana; or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America :
_bContaining Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N.
_nVolume 4,
_pThe Insects /
_cJohn Richardson, Assisted by William Swainson, William Kirby.
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1837.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (380 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Zoology
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aSir John Richardson (1787-1865), surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer, went on Sir John Franklin's first two Arctic expeditions as ship's doctor and naturalist, and made observations and collected a large number of plant and animal specimens from the Canadian Arctic. On his return to England after the second expedition he began to write this four-volume work of natural history, first published between 1829 and 1837. A volume is dedicated to each of the classes of mammal, bird, fish and insect, which are found in the Canadian Arctic. This work is an interesting example of pre-Darwinian natural history, full of detailed descriptions of the appearance, anatomy and behaviour of the different species. Volume 4 was first published in 1837 and was written by distinguished entomologist William Kirby (1759-1850) using Richardson's specimens from the second expedition. It focuses on the species of insect found in the Canadian Arctic.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108041706
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pZoology.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139151948
999 _c515130
_d515128