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020 _a9781139151924 (ebook)
020 _z9781108041683 (paperback)
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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 2,
_pThe Birds /
_cJohn Richardson, Assisted by William Swainson, William Kirby.
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1831.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (698 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 2 was first published in 1831 and focuses on the species of birds found in the Canadian Arctic. It was co-authored with naturalist and illustrator William Swainson (1789-1855) and contains many illustrations.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108041683
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pZoology.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139151924
999 _c515373
_d515371