Natural history / by R. Lydekker [and others].

  • Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915.
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Natural history / by R. Lydekker [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE This work aims to be a concise and popular Natural History, at once accurate in statement, handy in form, and ready of reference. The several departments of Zoological science are treated by specialists, all of whom are distinguished as authorities and as original investigators ; and the text is illustrated by upwards of five hundred original draw- ings made and reproduced expressly for the work. A concise systematic index precedes the work, and a full alphabetical index which contains about ten thousand references is given at the end. Great pains have been taken to render these both accurate and complete. As a whole the volume contains nearly eight hundred pages and is issued at a price which makes it pheno- menal. In the result it is hoped that much time may be saved to busy people and much help afforded to students. A. H. M.