Annotated List of the Avery Bird Collection in the Alabama Museum of Natural History, (Geological Survey Museum), Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Ernest G. Holt
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ISBN: 9781332304523
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Excerpt from Annotated List of the Avery Bird Collection in the Alabama Museum of Natural History, (Geological Survey Museum), Vol. 4 The act of the legislature of Alabama, approved April 18, 1873, "To revive and complete the geological and agricultural survey of Alabama," has from the first been construed to include, as related to agriculture and therefore legitimately a part of the survey work, the investigation of the fauna and flora of the State. In the preface of my first report, 1874, I have outlined the scope of a complete report of this survey to include, I. Physical Geography. II. Geology and Paleontology. III. Economic Geology. IV. Agricultural Relations, and V. Botany and Zoology, and the reports of the Survey from year to year have covered more or less in detail all of these subjects. Collections of the native plants of this State, begun in 1873 and continued since, have resulted in the accumulation of a fairly complete herbarium of the plants growing without cultivation in Alabama, and the publication of the classical work of Dr. Charles Mohr "The Plant Life of Alabama." Additional notes on the flora of the State have been published in most of the Survey reports up to the present time. Naturally the insects injurious to vegetation and the birds and other animals which prey upon them, or which are themselves directly destructive of vegetation, must be considered in any reasonably complete account of the agricultural features of the State. In my report for 1875 was published a preliminary paper on the cotton worm by Prof. A. R. Grote, and in the 1876 report, A Preliminary List of the Fresh Water Shells of the State, by Mr. James Lewis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.