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Fauna Boreali-Americana; or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America - Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. (Paperback)
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Fauna Boreali-Americana; or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America - Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology, Volume 4
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Sir John Richardson (1787 1865), surgeon, naturalist and Arctic
explorer, went on Sir John Franklin's first two Arctic expeditions
as ship's doctor and naturalist, and made observations and
collected a large number of plant and animal specimens from the
Canadian Arctic. On his return to England after the second
expedition he began to write this four-volume work of natural
history, first published between 1829 and 1837. A volume is
dedicated to each of the classes of mammal, bird, fish and insect,
which are found in the Canadian Arctic. This work is an interesting
example of pre-Darwinian natural history, full of detailed
descriptions of the appearance, anatomy and behaviour of the
different species. Volume 4 was first published in 1837 and was
written by distinguished entomologist William Kirby (1759 1850)
using Richardson's specimens from the second expedition. It focuses
on the species of insect found in the Canadian Arctic.
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