Author: Bombay Natural History Society
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
Author: Bombay Natural History Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Natural History and the Indian Army
Author: J. C. Daniel
Publisher: Bombay Natural History Society
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This collection of articles by officers of the Indian Army records the contributions of the Army to natural history over a period of more than two hundred years. It builds on the premise that the study of the Indian subcontinent's natural history was more or less the exclusive preserve of these officers. Beginning with the fading years of the eighteenth century, the natural history-inclined officers of the Indian Army studied the flora and fauna, particularly the fauna, in their leisure hours and became experts on it. Their findings were recorded in various journals in the U.K., and after 1886 mainly in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. A valuable feature of this book is a pamphlet (the twenty-fifth article in the collection) sent to the Indian Government by the Army through the Society by Lieutenant Colonel Burton, which drew the attention of the former to the dire need to conserve the country's wildlife, and in due course saw the formation of the Indian Board for Wildlife. The book is thus a tribute to this remarkable aspect of the Indian Army which, apart from fighting in the field, fought a battle to conserve the country's wonderful and almost incomparable natural heritage spread over a zoogeographical area over thirty degrees of latitude encompassing almost every type of climate met with in the world.
Publisher: Bombay Natural History Society
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This collection of articles by officers of the Indian Army records the contributions of the Army to natural history over a period of more than two hundred years. It builds on the premise that the study of the Indian subcontinent's natural history was more or less the exclusive preserve of these officers. Beginning with the fading years of the eighteenth century, the natural history-inclined officers of the Indian Army studied the flora and fauna, particularly the fauna, in their leisure hours and became experts on it. Their findings were recorded in various journals in the U.K., and after 1886 mainly in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. A valuable feature of this book is a pamphlet (the twenty-fifth article in the collection) sent to the Indian Government by the Army through the Society by Lieutenant Colonel Burton, which drew the attention of the former to the dire need to conserve the country's wildlife, and in due course saw the formation of the Indian Board for Wildlife. The book is thus a tribute to this remarkable aspect of the Indian Army which, apart from fighting in the field, fought a battle to conserve the country's wonderful and almost incomparable natural heritage spread over a zoogeographical area over thirty degrees of latitude encompassing almost every type of climate met with in the world.
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1766
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1766
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Microchiropteran Bats
Author: Anthony Michael Hutson
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831705958
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831705958
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The Cuckoos
Author: Robert B. Payne
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191513558
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The cuckoos are the most variable birds in social behavior and parental care: a few cuckoos are among the most social of all birds and rear their young in a common nest; most cuckoos are caring parents that rear their own young with some females laying a few eggs in the nests of others; while many cuckoo species are brood parasites who leave their eggs in the nests of other birds to rear, with their young maturing to kill their foster nestmates. In The Cuckoos, Robert B. Payne presents a new evolutionary history of the family based on molecular genetics, and uses the family tree to explore the origins and diversity of their behaviour. He traces details of the cuckoos' biology to their original sources, includes descriptions of previously unpublished field observations, and reveals new comparisons of songs showing previously overlooked cuckoo species. Lavishly illustrated with specially commissioned colour plates and numerous maps, halftones, and line drawings, The Cuckoos provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of this family yet available.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191513558
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The cuckoos are the most variable birds in social behavior and parental care: a few cuckoos are among the most social of all birds and rear their young in a common nest; most cuckoos are caring parents that rear their own young with some females laying a few eggs in the nests of others; while many cuckoo species are brood parasites who leave their eggs in the nests of other birds to rear, with their young maturing to kill their foster nestmates. In The Cuckoos, Robert B. Payne presents a new evolutionary history of the family based on molecular genetics, and uses the family tree to explore the origins and diversity of their behaviour. He traces details of the cuckoos' biology to their original sources, includes descriptions of previously unpublished field observations, and reveals new comparisons of songs showing previously overlooked cuckoo species. Lavishly illustrated with specially commissioned colour plates and numerous maps, halftones, and line drawings, The Cuckoos provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of this family yet available.
Mammal Species of the World
Author: Don E. Wilson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801882214
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 2201
Book Description
This indispensable reference work belongs in public and academic libraries throughout the world and on the shelf of every biologist who works with mammals.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801882214
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 2201
Book Description
This indispensable reference work belongs in public and academic libraries throughout the world and on the shelf of every biologist who works with mammals.
Notodontidae
Author: Alexander Schintlmeister
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004260994
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The book is the first comprehensive work on Palaearctic Notodontidae since the famous Seitz work of nearly a century ago.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004260994
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The book is the first comprehensive work on Palaearctic Notodontidae since the famous Seitz work of nearly a century ago.
The Bradley Bibliography: Dendrology. 1911-12
Author: Alfred Rehder
Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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