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Facing Extinction: The World's Rarest Birds and the Race to Save Them Facing Extinction: The World's Rarest Birds and the Race to Save Them
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Guide to the Pyralid and Crambid Moths of Britain and Ireland Guide to the Pyralid and Crambid Moths of Britain and Ireland
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Pselaphides recueillis par N. Leleup au Congo Belge I-XVIII [with], Les Pselaphides de Madagascar [and] Les Pselaphides de 'Afrique du Nord [and] Revision des Pselaphides de l'Afrique Intertropicale [and] The Humicolous Fauna of South Africa Pselaphidae a Pselaphides recueillis par N. Leleup au Congo Belge I-XVIII [with], Les Pselaphides de Madagascar [and] Les Pselaphides de 'Afrique du Nord [and] Revision des Pselaphides de l'Afrique Intertropicale [and] The Humicolous Fauna of South Africa Pselaphidae a
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Science from an Easy Chair

by Lankester, R.

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  • Catalogue No : 45306
  • Published : 1919
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : xiii, 423+8 (publisher's catalogue)
  • Collection : Keith Hyatt
  • Publisher : Methuen
  • Published In : London
  • Illustrations : col frontis, 1 b/w plate, 82 text illus

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13th edition. Sir (Edwin) Ray Lankester (1847–1929), British zoologist and Director of the natural history departments and keeper of zoology at the British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington (appointed in 1898). Lankester also played a major role in establishing the field of popular science. His most important contribution in this field was the series of articles Science from an Easy Chair published in the Daily Telegraph. This volume articles published1908-1909, with a revised and corrected letterpress and additional illustrations.

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8vo, orig. cloth, some wear. Signed and inscribed by the author to half-title. From the library of Keith Hyatt (d. 2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, with his name to front pastedown.

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