Rifle-Green by Nature: A Regency Naturalist and his Family, William Elford Leach

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In the opening years of the 19th century, Devonian naturalist William Elford Leach was one of the world's leading zoologists. He was a friend of Lamarck and of Cuvier, and his influence was recognised from Russia in the east to the United States in the west. Virtually single-handed he modernised the zoology in Britain, isolated by twenty years of European war. He taught the man who taught Darwin. Leach's brother fought in the Napoleonic wars.

Condition

Vg in d/w. Book review of present book from The London Naturalist (2008) pasted to front endpaper. From the library of Keith Hyatt (1932-2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, and prominent member of the London Natural History Society, with his name to front pastedown.