Ronay
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Illustrations : 31 b/w photos, illustrations and maps (3 folding)
Description:
A Description of the Islands of North Rona and Sula Sgeir, together with their Geography, Topography, History, and Natural History, Etc., to which is appended a short Account of the Severn Hunters, or Flannan Islands. First edition. Scarce.
Condition
8vo, orig. cloth, spine and edges of boards faded. Good. Signature of E.B. Ford to endpaper. Edmund Brisco Ford (1901-1988) was a British geneticist and lepidopterist, who helped develop and define the field of ecological genetics. His academic career was based entirely at the University of Oxford, where he became professor of ecological genetics (1963-1969). Among his many publications were two volumes in the New Naturalist series - No. 1: Butterflies (1945) and No. 30: Moths (1955).