The Stalk-Eyed Crustacea of British Guiana, West Indies, and Bermuda

Description:

First edition. Rare. Charles Grove Young (1849-1934) was in the Medical Service in British Guiana from 1873 to 1898. In addition to the current work he also wrote, Some Birds of Guiana (1921) co-authored with his son, Charles Gore Young, and A Contribution to the Ornithology of the Coastland of British Guiana, published in three parts in Ibis (1928-1929).

Condition

8vo, orig. green cloth, minor wear only. Occasional light foxing. Vg. Book-plate of Charles Gore Young (the son of the author), with author's inscription to him to half-title. A small printed label records the transfer of this volume from the Alexander Library, Edward Grey Institute, to the Oxford University Museum, from where it has subsequently been withdrawn. Charles Gore Young (1905-1985) was the son of Charles Grove Young (1849-1934). He studied forestry at Edinburgh University and worked as a planter in British Guiana and Malaya. In 1942 he was in Australia when the Japanese overran Malaya and, unable to return, he went to work for the Cameroon Development Corporation in British Cameroon where he was in charge of rubber plantations. His paper 'Birds of the Cameroon Mountain District' was published in Ibis in 1946.