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Various Authors

[Alert voyage] Report on the zoological collections, made in the Indo-Pacific ocean during the voyage of the HMS Alert 1881-1882.

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London, Taylor and Francis, 1884. 8vo (22.4 x 14.1 cm). xxv, 684 pp. 54 lithographed plates (some partially coloured). Original embossed and gilt-lettered cloth. = Important work containing contributions to the zoology and anthropology of the Pacific and Indian Ocean islands. Contains: Summary of the voyage by R. W. Coppinger, Mammalia by O. Thomas (this section describes skulls of Torres Straits and Banks islanders), Aves by Sharpe, reptiles, batrachians and Pisces by Guenther, molluscs by E. A. Smith (83, 22 pp., 4, 1 plates), Echinodermata by Bell, crustaceans by Miers, Coleoptera by Waterhouse, Lepidoptera by Butler, Alcyonaria and sponges by Ridley. With 54 nice plates containing the illustrations of many new and little known species. Some inobtrusive library stamps and call number on the spine foot, otherwise a very good copy of this scarce work. Horn-Schenkling II(3), p. 397; Nissen ZBI, 4755.
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