The Hope Reports: Vols I-XXVIII [1893-1953]

Description:

Reports of The Hope Department, Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Complete set of all published volumes, including Appendices to Vols 8 + 10. The Reports contain '...reprints of the various memoirs which have been written in connexion with [the Hope Department, Oxford University Museum]'. The majority relate to research on entomology, '...insect form, function, and classification...', and also general aspects of zoological science '...for which insects afford some of the best illustrations - such wide subjects for instance as evolution, natural selection, variation, and the numerous problems included in the phrase relation to environment'.

Condition

Orig. quarter cloth, spines faded, some wear. Ex-lib.: some vols with bookplates/stamps. Good, complete set.