Directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting specimens of natural history : prepared for the use of the Smithsonian Institution
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Type of record: Book
Title: Directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting specimens of natural history : prepared for the use of the Smithsonian Institution
Classmark: Leeds Phil. and Lit. F/MEL
Creator(s): Baird, Spencer Fullerton (1823-1887)
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Publication city: Washington
Date(s): 1852
Language: English
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/256523
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016331919705181
Collection group(s): Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
Description
By S.F. Baird.
Additional description
Bound with twenty-six other publications in volume lettered Natural History Tracts. 2. . Volume contents: 1. Melville, D.: Nature's teaching ..., 1851. -- 2. Instructions in reference to collecting nests ..., [1859]. -- 3. Baird, S.F.: Directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting specimens of natural history ..., 1852. -- 4. Hincks, T.: On Clavatella, a new genus of Corynoid polypes ..., 1861. -- 5. Catalogue of the Unios, Alasmodontas, and Anodontas ..., 1849. -- 6. Miall, L.C.: Summary notes on the organisation and classification of Brachiopoda ..., 1866. -- 7. Hope, F.W.: Buprestidae, [1838]. -- 8. Birchall, E.: The Lepidoptera of Ireland ..., 1867. -- 9. Stephens, J.F.: The nomenclature of British insects ..., 1833. --10. Baird, S.F.: On the serpents of New-York ..., 1854. -- 11. Selby, P.J.: A catalogue of the generic and sub-generic types of the class Aves ..., 1840. -- 12. A systematic catalogue of British birds, 1836. -- 13. Xantus, J.: Descriptions of supposed new
species of birds ..., 1859. -- 14. Strickland, H.E.: Report on the recent progress and present state of ornithology, 1845. -- 15. Sykes, W.H.: [A catalogue of the mammalia ...], 1831. -- 16. Zoological Society of London.: [Report of a meeting, June 14, 1831 ...], 1831. -- 17. Girard, C.: On the classification of mammalia, [1852]. -- 18. West, T.: On some conditions of the cell-wall in the petals of flowers ..., [1859]. -- 19. Hill, R.: Contributions to the natural history of the shark, 1850. -- 20. Owen, R.: On the homologies of the bones of the head of the Polypterus niloticus ..., 1862. -- 21. Owen, R.: On the zoological significance of the cerebral and pedial characters of man, 1862. -- 22. British Association for the Advancement of Science.: Report of the ... meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, report for 1842, pp. 106-21. -- 23. Strickland, H.E.: Rules for zoological nomenclature, 1863. -- 24. Meigs, J.A.: Description of a deformed, fragmentary human
skull ..., 1859. -- 25. MacCormac, H.: The pa
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