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New York: Philosophical Library, 1953. "This book is intended primarilty for the young naturalist. It introduces him to the rich variety of life on the seashore in the hope that it may stimulate him to further study with the aid of more complete guides written for the adult naturalist." Illustrated with photographs by the author. 175 pages with index. Cover corners are rubbed to boards, edges rubbed, wear to joints, gilt lettering on spine is faded, spine ends are bent and fraying. Bend to book. Previous owner's name stamp on front free endpaper. Spine broken within interior. Book is VG-.. Cloth. Very Good-/No Jacket. Illus. by Photographs By the Author. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Zoology.

1952. Zoological Books exhibited at the St. Louis Meeting Dec. 27-30, 1952. The seventh exhibit of zoological books by the Society of Systematic Zoology. "...342 commercial books listed herein are the producsts of 56 publishers. In addition to these there are exhibited any non-commercial books, monographs, and journals." 47 pp. including Author Index. Text typed, xeroxed?. Mildly faded blue stiff covers, mainly around edges, otherwise exterior is VG. Interior is tight, clean and VG.. Paper Cover. Very Good. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Zoology.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Volume XXX, 1910. "The report on the Bryozoa (+ Polyzoa) of the Woods Hole region, presented in the following pages, has grown out of the work of the survey of this region...conducted by the United States Bureau of Fisheries during the years 1903 to 1909. During the progress of this survey so much bryozoan material was obtained that it has seemed advisable to prepare a special paper dealing with this group." 31 plates. pp.203-266. Includes Explanation of Plates and Bibliography. Green wraps with ex-mus. stamp and numbers on front cover. Paper tear 3/4" from spine base upward with 2/16" missing at spine edge, otherwise the wraps are Very Good. mus. stamp on title p. Otherwise interior is Very Good+ to Near Fine. Author was Assistant Professor of Zoology, Columbia University and Assistant Director, New York Aquarium at the time of this publication.. Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Plates. Size: Approx. 7… Read More

Bingham Oceanography Foundation, 1933. 1933-1934. Art. 3-4, and Art.6-7. Art. 3: A geographic-ecological analysis of the seasonal changes in temperature conditions in shallow water along the Atlantic coast of the United States. by Parr, A. E. 90 pp. Art. 4: A contribution to the study of the natural food-cycle in aquatic environments with particular consideration of micro-organisms and dissolved organic matter, by Richard. M. Bond, 89 pp. Art. 6: Report on experimental use of a triangular trawl for bathypelagic collecting with an account of the fishes obtained and a revision of the family Cetomimidae, by Parr, A. E. 1934. 59 pp. and Art. 7: Littoral Penaeidea chiefly from the Bingham Oceanographic Collection with a revision of Paenaeopsis and descriptions of two new genera and eleven new American species, by Martin David Burkenroad,1934. 109 pp. Many uncut pages so most interiors are Near Fine. Stiff grey wraps. Slightly soiled. Two bulletins with ex.-mus. stamp on covers,otherwise exteriors are… Read More

Bingham Oceanography Laboratory Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University. 1944-1946. Art. 1-5. Art. 1: Tetrodon Poisoning by Warren H. Yudkin.1944. 18 pp.; Art. 2: Studies on the Marine Resources of Southern New England. I. An Analysis of the Fish Population of the Shore Zone, by Herbert E. Warfel and Daniel Merriman.1944. 91 pp.; Art. 3: Studies on the Marine Resources of Southern New England, III. The Possibility of the Utilization of the Starfish(Asterias Forbesi Desor). 1946. 58 pp.; and Art. 4 and 5 (in one bulletin): Studies on the Marine Resources of Southern New England. IV. The Biology and Economic Importance of the Ocean Pout, Macrozoarces Americanus (Bloch and Schneider) by Yngve H. Olsen and Daniel Merriman and V. Parasites and Diseases of the Ocean Pout, Macrozoarces Americanus by Ross F. Nigrelli.1946. 221 pp. plus 10 plates. Stiff grey wraps. Slightly soiled. otherwise exteriors are Very Good to VG+. Interiors are all tight, clean and VG+. . Wraps. Very Good to Very Good+.… Read More

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1907. 26 Reports covering years: 1906-1910,1912-1924,1926-1932, and 1966. Commences with report of the death of Marshall Field, founder of the Museum. Frontis. portrait of Field (Plate). Plate II: Mourning Design in Museum Rotunda Exposed for Thirty Days Following Mr. Field's Death. Each year's report gives Accessions in Departments of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, Zoology. Numerous Plates in each Report. Stiff cover wraps-mildly soiled. Some with chips along edges or spine. A few with small pieces of paper spine missing, but still intact. ex.mus. stamp/numbers either on front or on title page. 1919 Report's front cover is detached. Overall exteriors are Good to Good +. Interiors are clean and Very Good.. Wraps. Good. Illus. by Plates. Size: Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Natural History.

New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Co., 1973. Translated from Russian.This is a translation of the original article published in the Annual Report of the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1916 in Russian. It deals essentially with the free living nematodes in the collection of the Zoological Museum, Academy of Aciences, Petrograd (now Leningrad). The aim of this paper is to present a correct identification of the nematodes wrongly identified earlier by Linstow (1903). 55 pp. plus 2 foldout plates. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. Back cover with some faint white "dots"/or rubbed areas? Overall covers are VG to VG+. Dust Jacket with wear around edges. 3/4" tear at top edge of back cover. DJ is Good. . Cloth. Very Good to Very Good+/Good. Illus. by Plate, Figures (line drawings). Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Zoology.

London: Hardwicke & Bogue, 1878. 13 issues. January1878 plus complete year for 1879: Jan.-Dec. A Monthly Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature. Each issue with many illustrations. Subject areas: Natural History, Biology, Botany, Entomology, Zoology, Geology, Microscopy. Many scientific ads with some full pages on microscopes. Some string-tied "announcements" tipped in including one edition with 4 page article by T.Twining. Illustrated covers.Some soiling. Minor chipping on sides. Overall Good or better. 2 issues covers detached. Several issues' pages uncut. Paper on some issues feels stiff-perhaps got moist? Doesn't affect interiors which are clean, tight and overall in VG condition. 2 issues have J.D. Putnam's signature on covers. One issue with ex-mus. stamp.. Wraps. Good. Illus. by Figures(drawings),. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Science.

Ohio: Ohio Journal of Science, 1928. Ohio State University. Contributions from the Department of Zoology and Entomology. No. 84. Reprinted from THE OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, Vol. XXVIII, No.4, pp. 215-228. In the Introduction, the author writes "The following paper comprises a study of the order Mallophaga, which includes the biting lice commonly found on birds and mammals, with special reference to a list of the species found on Ohio birds. Stiff gray covers, slightly soiled. vertical crease as if folded (barely shows inside). Faded "border" around the front side and bottom edges. ex.-mus. stamp. Overall exterior is G+. First page with ex.-mus stamp, otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Wraps. Good+. Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 10". Entomology.

Warsaw, Poland: Smithsonian Belgrade, 1976. Translated from Polish for the Smithsonian and NSF by Panstwowe Wydwnictwo Naukowe, 617pp. "Owing to the fact that the author's personal interests include fossils as well as living mammals, he has tried to view the problems under discussion as much as possible from an evolutionary and historical perspective and has accordingly given equal emphasis to fossils and present-day mammals. From this point of view the book can claim to be original..." The term "theriology," the author explains, "has a long tradition in Polish scientific literature and is also commonly used by zoologists in the USSR instead of the linguistically less correct term 'mammology' which is more common in western literature." Extensive bibliography. Mild soil "strip" on spine, otherwise covers are VG+. Front hinge, 1" , broken. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Near Fine. Pictorial dust jacket. Creases on inside flaps. Otherwise… Read More

Boston: Press of A. A. Kingman, 1873. From the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. XV., March 19th, 1873. Pages 315-372 (60 pp). One b/w plate with tissueguard. Brown paper covers. Cover corners and edges are chipped and creased, large chip removed from front cover, covers are dirty and soiled, tears to joints, spine is creased, spine ends torn. Ex. museum stamp and identification marks on front cover. Title page edge is heavily chipped. Minor tears and chipping to rest of document pages, some corners are bent or dog-earred. Document in Good condition.. Paper Cover. Good. Illus. by Figure, Plate. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Zoology.

New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Co., 1979. Translated from Russian. "Only Polychaeta (Errantia) are examined in this review. The material pertains entirely to the northern part of the Yellow Sea, including the Gulfs of Liao-tung and Chihli (Po hai), and consists of 112 species and sub-species..." 137 pp. including Bibliography. 37 illustrations and 3 tables. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Covers are Near Fine. 1 1/2" hinge opening on title page, otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Dust Jacket is overall Good. 1 3/4" tear along back cover's spine joint. Mildly rubbed edges. . Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Figures (Diagram Drawings,maps, photographs). Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/4". Zoology.

New York: The Science Company, 1885. With Science Supplement. Some articles: "The Meeting of the American Public Health Association"; "The government and its scientific bureaus" and "Methods of teaching political economy". Articles by or about Famous Americans: in Letters to the Editor: "NEWCOMB's Political Economy"; LESTER F. WARD "A National university"; P. J. FARNSWORTH "The English sparrow"; and WILLIAM FERREL "The temperature of the moon". In Science Supplement:.I. C. RUSSELL "North Carolina coal-fields"; "Laying a Cable" (joining the two islands Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket); "Physics at Johns Hopkins"; and "The American ferret" with an illustration of one. Covers slightly soiled. Slight chipping at edges. Overall covers are Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Supplement"s edges lightly soiled/chipped, otherwise in VG condition. . Wraps. Good+. Illus. by Etching.… Read More

New York: The Science Company, 1887. Some Articles: What American Zoologists have done for Evolution, by E.W. Morse. Laid in page with portrait engraving of Morse; Economy in Management of Soil, by H. E. Alvord; Prehistoric Chronology of America by D.G. Brinton; The Sonora Earthquake with illustration and Chemical Laboratory of the University of Nebraska with 5 illustrations. Front wrap detached but intact. ex-mus mailing label and numbers on front. Slightly soiled. Overall exterior is Good to Good+. interior is clean, and tight and VG+. Engraving of Morse, top border watermarked. Not on portrait. From SCIENCE, Aug. 20, 1886.. Paper Cover. Good. Illus. by Engravings. Size: Approx. 9" X 12". Science.

Cambridge: Science Company, 1883. Articles:The Igloo of the Innuit. -I; On the Development of the Pituitary Body in Petromyzon, and the Significance of that Organ in other Types with 6 illustrations; The Weather in June, 1883 with map, table and ice chart for 1883; The Fall of a Balloon (hot air) with 6 illustrations; Some Unsolved Problems in Geology by Dr. J. W. Dawson; plus Weekly Summary of the Progress of Science with "reports" in Chemistry, Agriculture (with table), Meteorology, Geography, and Zoology with illustration of a Restoration of Brontosaurus. pp.181-210. Front wrap advertisement for The Revere Rubber Co. ex.-mus. stamp and numbers at top margin. mildly soiled with chipping around edges. Overall exterior is Good to Good+. Interior pages slightly brownish age-toned around edges, otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good.. Wraps. Good to Good+. Illus. by Figures (line drawings), Map, Chart. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/2". Science.

Norman, OK: University Press, 1909. The State University of Oklahoma, Research Bulletin. Nos. 1 and 2. by Dr. H. H. Lane, Professor of Zoology and Embryology. 26 pp. including Bibliography. Pages uncut at top edge. No. 1: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE HABITS AND PLACENTATION OF TATU NOVEMCINCTUM-18 pp. 3 full page illustrations with Explanations. "...so little is known concerning the anatomy, habits, or distribution of that species of armadillo which constitutes the only living representative of Edentates native to the United States. This is the Nine-banded Armadillo." and No.2 " A SUGGESTED CLASSIFICATION OF EDENTATES"-pp.21-26. Grey stiff covers. Mildly soiled. ex.mus. numbers on front cover's upper edge.Tiny tear at side edge. Overall covers are Good to Good+. Tiny nick shows up on several pages at same side edge-very minor. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. . Wraps. Good to Good+. Illus. by Figures (Diagram drawings), Table. Size: Approx. 6" x 9". Zoology.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1951. Methuen's Monographs on Biological Subjects. " It is the purpose of this book to present a brief but up-to-date account of our knowledge of the sexual physiology of the vertebrates". 117 pp. including Glossary and Index. 12 illustrations. Tan cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine. Covers are Very Good+ to Near Fine. Discoloration vertical line on front free endpaper. pp.72-73 hinge breaking. otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good +. A London and New York publishing company listed on title page, however on verso states: "First printed in 1951. Published in Great Britain. Catalogue No. 4119/U." Hence listed as a London edition. Dust Jacket's spine faded/yellowed. Small tear at top spine end. Crease on one flap mildly soiled. English price sticker on inside front flap (7' 6 net). DJ is Very Good -. Scarce with DJ.. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good-. Illus. by Figures (drawings and diagrams). Size: Approx. 4… Read More

Salem, Mass.: Naturalist's Agency, 1876. "An Address by Vice-President E.S. Morse, before the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At Buffalo, N.Y. August. 1876. Reprinted from Vol. XXV of the Proceedings of the Amer.Assoc. for the Adv. of Sci." 42 pp. ex.-mus. stamp and numbers on front. Tears at spine's gutter and thin strip at front bottom edge, otherwise covers are intact. Good to Good-. Interior is tight, clean and in VG condition.. Wraps. Good. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 9". Zoology.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1987. "The classic history, now updated and expanded, with lists and drawings of rare, threatened, and extinct species." Drawings by Bob Hines. 332 pages with index. DJ has light wear to edges and corners, some creasing, spine is discolored. Cover corners and edges are rubbed, spine ends are bent, some discoloration to back cover. Interior is tight, clean. Book in VG condition.. Revised Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. Illus. by Bob Hines. Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 9 1/2". Zoology.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1878. Handbook for Students and General Readers. Specially Revised for American Students by A.S. Packard. 134 pp. including Index. 59 illustrations. Soiling to covers. Spine darkened and top edge frayed. ex.-mus. paper label on front. Overall covers are Good. Front endpaper with small ex.mus numbers in top left corner. "Griswold College" written on free endpaper. Tipped in 3"x1 3/4" paper: "IN PRESS. Uniform with this Volume: Zoology of the Vertebrate Animals, by Alex. Macallister, M.D. Specially revised for American Students by A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D." A few pages torn at side edge. pp.29-46 bottom corner tip missing. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG. . Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by Figures (line drawings). Size: Approx. 4 1/2 " x 6 1/4". Zoology.