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100	1		_aPennant, Thomas, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHistory of Quadrupeds. _nVolume 2 / _cThomas Pennant.
264		1	_aPlace of publication not identified : _bpublisher not identified, _c1793.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press
300			_a1 online resource (448 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			_aThomas Pennant (1726-98) was a keen geologist, naturalist and antiquary. Linnaeus supported his election to the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in 1757, and in 1767 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. His History of Quadrupeds (1793), aimed to promote natural history among a wider readership, originated in an informal index to John Ray's Synopsis of 1693. In his preface, Pennant acknowledges the monumental Histoire naturelle by the Comte de Buffon, as well as works by Klein (1751), Brisson (1756), and particularly the work of Linnaeus, though Pennant strongly disagreed with Linnaueus's classification of primates as including humans with apes. Pennant's two-volume book, beautifully illustrated with over 100 engravings, provides an overview of the state of zoological classification at the end of the eighteenth century. Charles Darwin owned a copy and had it sent to him in South America during the Beagle voyage.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108005173
830		0	_aCambridge library collection. _pZoology.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511703881
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