Search Results: Titles starting with K from Breck Bartholomew Natural History Books

Moscow-Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, 1962. Hardcover. Used. In Russian

Australian Journal of Zoology. 27:373-393., 1979.

American Museum Novitates. (2431):1-47., 1970.

Frankfurt: Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 1893.

Wien: Selbsverlag Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, 1996. Paperback.

London: Collins, 1973. Clothbound, dust jacket, Smells of moth balls. Good.

Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 111(8):279-295., 1954.

Occasional Papers Department of Biology College of Puget Sound. (23, 24):209-233., 1963.

Bulletins of the Zoological Society of San Diego. (16):1-63., 1940.

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. Paperback.

Sarawak Museum Journal. 34(55):161-182., 1985.

University of Washington Publications in Biology. 2(4):103-228., 1936.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Paperback. Paperback

New York: Scholastic, 1975. Paperback. Original title: Biography of a king snake

Pages: x, 99 p.One of the earliest New World naturalists, José Celestino Mutis began his professional life as a physician in Spain and ended it as a scientist and natural philosopher in modern-day Colombia. Drawing on new translations of Mutis's nearly forgotten writings, this fascinating story of scientific adventure in eighteenth-century South America retrieves Mutis's contributions from obscurity.
In 1760, the 28-year-old Mutis—newly appointed as the personal physician of the Viceroy of the New Kingdom of Granada—embarked on a 48-year exploration of the natural world of northern South America. His thirst for knowledge led Mutis to study the region's flora, become a professor of mathematics, construct the first astronomical observatory in the Western Hemisphere, and amass one of the largest scientific libraries in the world. He translated Newton's writings and penned essays about Copernicus; lectured extensively on astronomy, geography, and meteorology; and eventually became a priest. But, as… Read More

Urania Tierreich. Fische, Lurche, Kriechtiere:335-508., 1969 (?). Paperback.

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 85:557-578., 1972.

Stuttgart, Germany: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1961. Hardcover.

Ordentliche Veroeffentlichung des Kosmos. 3:1-100., 1912. Orig. wprs.. paperback. Orig. wprs.

Zürich: Albert Mueller Verlag, 1986. Clothbound with a dust-jacket.