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Author : Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : NYPL:33433011482464
Author : Jack Ashby
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750986137
From a single beginning, countless millions of stories from the animal kingdom have – and continue to – run their course. Museum objects allow us to investigate some of those stories. Animal Kingdom journeys through both the evolutionary history of animals, and the ways that people have interpreted them in museums. Animals in museums are not only representatives of their entire species, but they also tell us something about the time in which they were collected. They provide windows into the past as well as data for the present. They embody centuries of natural ecosystems and human cultures. Through a selection of 100 objects, telling 100 stories, this beautifully illustrated book explores the diversity of animal life over the past 600 million years, and delves into some of the most exciting mechanisms in evolution. By understanding some of the key stories of how nature operates, we can gain amazing insight into the systems underlying life itself.
Author : William Sweetland Dallas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Zoology
ISBN : LCCN:60000005
Author : William Sweetland Dallas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Zoology
ISBN : BSB:BSB10307019
Author : Jim Naughten
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Animals
ISBN : 3791382470
Throughout his life photographer Jim Naughten has been fascinated with the natural world. As a child, he collected fossils he found near his home in Dover. Now a renowned photographer, Naughten has started to experiment with stereography and has turned to his boyhood interest, gaining access to the archives of some of the world's most prestigious natural history museums. This gorgeously produced book contains fifty images of marine life, reptiles, mammals, birds and primates photographed expressly for viewing through a stereoscope, which is included with the book. Stereoscopy was invented in 1839 to study and explain binocular vision. Having two eyes allows humans to determine distance and depth and stereoscopy shows a left- and right-eye view from a slightly different angle, as we see things in day-to-day life. Looking through the stereo viewer, readers will see the specimens as three-dimensional objects. As the images jump off the page, their incredible details become apparent-delicate bat wings, the spiraling skeleton of a python, the almost mythic form of a leafy sea dragon.A foreword by Martin Barnes of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London offers an assessment of the work while essays on the specimens themselves and the history of stereoscopy provide rich background to this photographic technology, and to Naughten's achievement in bringing to life a world that seamlessly melds the past and present.
Author : Sanborn Tenney,Abby Amy Tenney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Animals
ISBN : HARVARD:HN22ZM
A brief description of the animal kingdom: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, crustaceans, mollusks, echinoderms and protozoans.
Author : William Sweetland Dallas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1860*
Category : Zoology
ISBN : LCCN:06004365
Author : S.G. Goodrich
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382310158
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Julian S. Huxley
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262045377
The groundbreaking first book by a major evolutionary biologist, published in 1912, that anticipated current thinking about organismal complexity. Julian Huxley’s The Individual in the Animal Kingdom, published in 1912, is a concise and groundbreaking work that is almost entirely unknown today. In it, Huxley analyzes the evolutionary advances in life’s organizational complexity, anticipating many of today’s ideas about changes in individuality. Huxley’s overarching system of concepts and his coherent logical principles were so far ahead of their time that they remain valid to this day. In part, this is because his explicitly Darwinian approach carefully distinguished between the integrated form and function of hierarchies within organisms and loosely defined, nonorganismal ecological communities. In The Individual in the Animal Kingdom, we meet a youthful Huxley who uses his commanding knowledge of natural history to develop a nonreductionist account of life’s complexity that aligns with seminal early insights by Darwin, Wallace, Weismann, and Wheeler. As volume editors Richard Gawne and Jacobus Boomsma point out, this work disappeared into oblivion despite its relevance for contemporary research on organismal complexity and major evolutionary transitions. This MIT Press edition gives Huxley’s book a second hearing, offering readers a unique vantage point on the discoveries of evolutionary biology past and present.
Author : Jack Ashby
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750986137
From a single beginning, countless millions of stories from the animal kingdom have – and continue to – run their course. Museum objects allow us to investigate some of those stories. Animal Kingdom journeys through both the evolutionary history of animals, and the ways that people have interpreted them in museums. Animals in museums are not only representatives of their entire species, but they also tell us something about the time in which they were collected. They provide windows into the past as well as data for the present. They embody centuries of natural ecosystems and human cultures. Through a selection of 100 objects, telling 100 stories, this beautifully illustrated book explores the diversity of animal life over the past 600 million years, and delves into some of the most exciting mechanisms in evolution. By understanding some of the key stories of how nature operates, we can gain amazing insight into the systems underlying life itself.
Author : Sanborn Tenney
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 133112784X
Excerpt from Natural History of Animals: Containing Brief Descriptions of the Animals Figured En Tenney's Natural History Tablets, but Complete Without the Tablets This little volume contains a brief account of the Animal Kingdom, and it is hoped that it may aid Parents and Teachers in interesting the young in the delightful and important study of Natural History. As indicated on the title-page, it serves the purpose of a key to the Natural History Tablets, but is also complete in itself without the Tablets. 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.
Author : Mark Carwardine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Animals
ISBN : 0565093207
Author : Lothar A. Beck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319443218
This book is devoted to the knowledge of up to 250 years of collecting, organizing and preserving animals by generations of scientists. Zoological Collections are a huge resource for modern animal research and should be available for national and international scientists and institutions, as well as prospective public and private customers. Moreover, these collections are an important part of the scientific enterprise, supporting scientific research, human health, public education, and the conservation of biodiversity. Much of what we are beginning to understand about our world, we owe to the collection, preservation, and ongoing study of natural specimens. Properly preserved collections of marine or terrestrial animals are libraries of Earth's history and vital to our ability to learn about our place in its future. The approach employed by the editor involves not only an introduction to the topic, but also an external view on German collections including an assessment of their value in the international and national context, and information on the international and national collection networks. Particular attention is given to new approaches of sorting, preserving and researching in Zoological Collections as well as their neglect and/or threat. In addition, the book provides information on all big Public Research Museums, on important Collections in regional Country and local District Museums, and also on University collections. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing scientific insight for readers with an interest in biodiversity, taxonomy, or evolution, as well as natural history collections at large.
Author : Ainsworth J.R. Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030895077
Of late a revival of interest in Zoology is taking place, and this multi-volume work is an attempt to help the movement by pointing out the various lines of study and explaining in simple language the views of modern specialists. Every effort has been made to treat the subject-matter in such a way as to interest the general reader, while at the same time the needs of students, amateur naturalists, and teachers of Zoology (including Nature Study) have been borne in mind. All the larger popular books on Zoology take the various animal groups seriatim, a time-honoured plan which is in many ways valuable and useful. But this fails to bring out the complex inter-relations that exist between the different groups. A Due appreciation of the complexity of the struggle for existence, and a realization of our comparative ignorance reading the lifestyle of animals should open innumerable fascinating lines of scientific study of many amateurs who are at present mere collectors of insects, birds eggs, or shells. The unique multi-volume work fully covers every aspect, besides physical features of animal life : Food and feeding, homes and dwellings, courtship and breeding, care of eggs and young, foes and injuries, etc. Utilitarian Zoology and Philosophic Zoology have added a new dimension to this comprehensive study.
Author : Samuel Griswold Goodrich,Alexander Winchell,Julius Hawley Seelye,Sanborn Tenney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : LCCN:06004371
