The American Lobster: A Study of its Habitats and Development
- Publisher : Government Printing Office
- Published In : Washington
- Illustrations : 65 plates (8 col, 1 folding), 1 folding table
Description:
Article 1 - Bull. U.S. Fish Commission, 1895. Plates numbered A-J, 1-44, 45a-b, 46-54. Ten plates are from photographs, the rest are drawn from nature by the author; eight of the plates are fine chromolithographs illustrating developmental stages of the lobster.
Francis Hobart Herrick (1858- 1940) was an American writer, natural history illustrator and Professor of Biology at Adelbert College of Western Reserve University. He specialised in embryology and biology of shellfish, his research focusing on the native lobsters. This book is a major study accompanied by a hundred detailed drawings by the author. He is also known for his critical biography of John James Audubon, as well as for being the first researcher to study the bald eagle in the field.
Condition
Large-8vo (290x205mm), orig. printed wrappers, worn, repaired, spine reinforced with cloth tape; edges uncut, wide margins; internally clean, pages unopened; short tear to one plate margin (not affecting printed area). Good. Provenance: withdrawn from the Hope Library, University of Oxford. 'Presented by Prof. Poulton 1913'. Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856-1943) was a British evolutionary biologist and advocate of natural selection, who became Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford in 1893.