Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology : birds, book and business /

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This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838-1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dresser travelled widely and spent time in Texas during the American Civil War. The book explores how he and his contemporaries discov...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: McGhie, Henry A. (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Manchester : Manchester University Press 2017.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvnb7pxg
جدول المحتويات:
  • 1. Family background and early life
  • 2. Texas : the big adventure
  • 3. Settling down to business
  • 4. Early exploits in ornithological society
  • 5. Collecting
  • 6. Discovering the birds of Europe. I
  • 7. Discovering the birds of Europe. II
  • 8. Making The birds of Europe
  • 9. A central figure : society life in the 1870s
  • 10. The 1880s : the rise of rivalry
  • 11. The 1890s : the continuing rise of the British Museum (Natural History)
  • 12. Working independently, 1900-5
  • 13. The grand finale : producing Eggs of the birds of Europe
  • 14. Time for a change
  • 15. Legacies
  • Appendix 1. Birds mentioned in the text
  • Appendix 2. Birds named by Henry Dresser
  • Appendix 3. Birds named after Henry Dresser
  • Appendix 4. Publications based on Henry Dresser's collections, 1985-2017.

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