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Remarks on the Zoology of the Tenasserim Provinces: Designed for the Guidance of Investigators of the Natural History of that Region

by Blyth, Edward

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Publisher : Bishop's College Press
Published In : Calcutta

Description:

Guide to the fauna of the Tenasserim Provinces in Burma. Edward Blyth (1810-1873) was an English zoologist, and curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, India.

Condition

8vo, later cloth. Lacks pages 21-24. Withdrawn from an institutional library with ink stamp to title. Inscribed from the author to Richard Owen (1804-1892), British palaeontologist and comparative anatomist, and critic of Charles Darwin's theory of evoultion. Also with a few manuscript annotations/corrections by the author (e.g. against text 'Examples of the Lesser Flamingo … are wanted for the Asiatic Society's Museum', he has written, 'I have now Calcutta specimens').