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Menagerie is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were
brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of
the London Zoo - a tale replete with the extravagant, the
eccentric, and - on occasion - the downright bizarre. From Henry
III's elephant at the Tower, to George IV's love affair with
Britain's first giraffe and Lady Castlereagh's recalcitrant
ostriches, Caroline Grigson's tour through the centuries amounts to
the first detailed history of exotic animals in Britain. On the way
we encounter a host of fascinating and outlandish creatures,
including the first peacocks and popinjays, Thomas More's monkey,
James I's cassowaries in St James's Park, and Lord Clive's zebra -
which refused to mate with a donkey, until the donkey was painted
with stripes. But this is not just the story of the animals
themselves. It also the story of all those who came into contact
with them: the people who owned them, the merchants who bought and
sold them, the seamen who carried them to our shores, the
naturalists who wrote about them, the artists who painted them, the
itinerant showmen who worked with them, the collectors who
collected them. And last but not least, it is about all those who
simply came to see and wonder at them, from kings, queens, and
nobles to ordinary men, women, and children, often impelled by no
more than simple curiosity and a craving for novelty.
First published in 1936, Colyer's Variations and Diseases of the
Teeth of Animals drew extensively on the material housed in the
Odontological Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England,
and quickly became an indispensable reference for students and
research workers in zoology, archaeology and veterinary science, as
well as human dentistry. In this second edition, Colyer's
successors at the Odontological Museum have fully revised the text
in the light of new knowledge, while preserving the best of
Colyer's own material. The text has been rearranged taxonomically
and a new introduction reviewing conceptual advances in the field
since Colyer's time has been added. The numerous illustrations,
classics of their kind, have been reproduced to a high standard
from Colyer's originals and many new figures have been
incorporated. This revision will introduce Colyer's material to a
new audience, for whom it represents a comprehensive and
fully-referenced survey of abnormalities and diseases of the teeth
and jaws of animals.
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