Scientific Results of the Cambridge Expedition to the East African Lakes, 1930-1, 1-18.

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Scarce complete set of 18 reports on the Cambridge Expedition to the East African Lakes 1930-1931. This expedition was a major scientific survey organised by the University of Cambridge, led by E.B. Worthington. Its goals were to study the biology, ecology, limnology and geology of less-studied Rift Valley lakes in Kenya and Uganda, particularly Lakes Rudolf (now Turkana), Baringo, Edward, Naivasha, and Bunyoni. The results were published in these 18 reports in Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoological series, Vol. 38, 39 and 40.

No. 1. General introduction and station list, E. B. Worthington; No. 2. Fishes other than Cichlidae, E.B. Worthington; No. 3. Observations on the bionomics of some East African swamps; No. 4. The waters of some East African lakes in relation to their fauna and flora, L.C. Beadle; No. 5. Reptiles and Amphibians, H.W. Parker; No. 6. Rotiferes et Gastrotriches, P. de Beauchamp; No. 7. The Algae, F. Rich; No. 8. Hydracarina, O. Lundblad; No. 9. Leeches, J.P. Moore; No. 10. On some aquatic Coleopterous larvae, A.D. Imms ; No. 11. The Cichlid Fishes, E. Trewavas; No. 12. Aquatic Heteroptera, T. Jaczewski; No. 13. Adaptation to aerial respiration in Alma emini Mich. An Oligochaet from East African swamps, L.C. Beadle; No. 14. Crustacea Macrura (Prawns), I. Gordon; No. 15. The fish of Lake Rudolf and Lake Baringo, E.B. Worthington; No. 16. The smaller Crustacea, A.G. Lowndes; No. 17. The vertical distribution and movements of the plankton in Lakes Rudolf, Naivasha, Edward, and Bunyoni, E.B. Worthington & C.K. Ricardo; No.18. Coleoptera of the families Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae, J. Balfour-Browne.

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18 parts bound as one, large 8vo, later black buckram. Vg. From the library of Prof. Jim Green (1928-2016), Professor of Zoology at Queen Mary College, University of London, with his name to endpaper.