Scope and Contents
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the collections in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution (New York: Appleton, 1860) 7) Baldwin, William Charles, Afican
Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert etc. from 1852 to 1860 (London:
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/ cvm imaginibvs trivmphalibvs restitvti, antiqvis nvmmis notisqvae Io: Petri Bellorii illvstrati; nunc primum per Io: Iacobvm
de Rvbeis aeneis typis vulgati (Romae: ad templum Sanctae Mariae de Pace, 1690) 11) Bellorio, Joanne Petro [Bellori, Giovanni
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durch Potsdam und die Umgebungen (Berlin: 1841) 13) Bernard, Pierre, Le Jardin des plantes, desription complete historique
et Pittorsesque de Museum d’histoire Naturelle, del la menagerie, des serres, des galeries de Mineralogie et d’anatomie etc.
(Paris: L. Curmer, 1842) 14) Binney, W. G., Land and Fresh-Water Shells of North America (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution,
1865-1869) 15) Binney, W. G., Bibliography of North American Conchology previous to the year 1860, prepared for the Smithsonian
Institution (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1864) 16) Botany, A Selection of Hexandrian plants belonging to the
natural orders Amaryllidae and Liliace 17) Brehm, Dr., Fuhrer durch das Berliner Aquarium (Berlin, 1841) 18) Brewer, Thomas
M., North American Oology Part 1: Raptores and Fissirosters (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1856) 19) Buffon, Comte
de, Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects, and Reptiles (London: 1808) 20) Carpenter, Philip P., The Mollusks of Westerrn
North America (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1872) 21) Carpenter, William B., Zoology, being a systematic account
of the general structure, habits, instincts, and uses of the principal families of the animal kingdom, as well as of the chief
forms of fossil remains (London: Bohn, 1857-1858) 22) Cassell’s Popular Natural History (London: Cassell & Co., n.d.) 23)
Cassin, John, Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America (Philadelphia: Lippincott,
1862) 24) Catlow, Maria E., Popular Scripture Zoology, containing a familiar history of the animals mentioned in the Bible
(London: Reeve & Co., 1852) 25) John Dean Caton, The Antelope and Deer of America (New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1877) 26) Catton,
Charles, Jr., Animals Drawn from Nature, and engraved in Aqua-Tinta, with a description of each animal (London: 1788) 27)
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vivants et fossiles (Paris: 1866-1867) 30) Conrad, T.A., Check List of the Invertebrate Fossils of North America (Washington,
DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1866) 31) Cooper, J.G., The Fauna of California and its Geographical Distribution (1870) 32)
Cottingham, L.N., Plans, Elevations, Sections, and details of the interior of Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey (London:
1829) 33) Coues, Elliott, Prodrome of a work on the Ornothology of Arizona Territory (Philadelphia: 1866) 34) Cronise, Titus
Fey, The Natural Wealth of California, a detailed description of each county, etc. (San Francisco: Bancroft, 1868) 35) Crosse
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Dodd & Mead, 1872) 39) Daniell, W., Illustrations of the Island of Staffa, in a series of views accompanied by topographical
and geological descriptions (London: Longman’s, 1818) 40) Dieffenbach, Ernest, Travels in New Zealand: with contributions
to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country (London: John Murray, 1843) 41) Donovan, E., The Natural
History of British Shells, including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain, systematically
arranged in the Linnean Manner (London: Rivington’s, 1804) 42) Donovan, E., The Natural History of British Quadrupeds, consisting
of coloured figures, accompanied with scientific and general descriptions (London: Rivington, 1820) 43) Donovan, E., The Naturalists’
Repository, or monthly miscellany of exotic natural history, consisting of elegantly coloured plates, scientific and general
descriptions, etc. (London: Simpkin & Marshal, 1823-1824) 44) Dorner, Dr. H., Das Aquarium des Zoologischen Gartens zu Hamburg
(Hamburg: n.d.) 45) Duncan, P. Martin, The Transformations (or Metamorphoses) of Insects (INsecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and
Crustacea) (London: Cassell & Co., n.d.) 46) East India Company, “History of the Establishment of the Dutch East India Co.”
in Harris, John, Voyages and Travels 47) Emory, William H., Report of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey (Washington,
DC: 1854-1859) 48) English Forests and Forest Trees, historical, legendary, and descriptive (London: Ingram, Cooke & Co.,
1853) 49) Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1878: Section Belge, Catalogue Officiel (Bruxelles: 1878) 50) Exposition Universelle
de Paris, 1878: Catalogue du Ministere de l’Instruction Publique des Cultes et des Beaux-Arts (Paris: 1878) 51) Figuier, Louis,
The Ocean World: being a description of the Sea and its living inhabitants (London: Cassell & Co., n.d.) 52) Figuier, Louis,
Reptiles and Birds: a popular account of various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting
(New York: Appleton & Co., 1870) 53) Fine Art, see Chinese Drawings in Colours: Fruit, Flowers, and Fish 54) Frisch, Johannn
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Gosse, P.H., Popular British Ornithology, containing a familiar and technical description of the birds of the British Isles
(London: Reeve & Co., 1853) 59) Gosse, P.H., The Wonders of the Great Deep: or the physical, animal, geological, and vegetable
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of Genera and Species of Birds, distinguishing those contained in the British Museum (London: 1869-1871) 62) Gray, G.R., List
of the Specimens of Birds in the Collection of the British Museum: Part 3, Section II-Rittacidae (London: Trustees of the
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(London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1864) 64) Gray, G.R., List of the Specimens of Birds in the Collection of the British
Museum: Part 3, Sections III & IV-Capitonidae & Picidae (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1868) 65) Gray, G.R., List
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and Edentate Mammalia in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1869) 67) Gray, John Edward, Catalogue
of the Edentate, Thick-Skinned, and Ruminant Mammals in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1873) 68)
Gray, John Edward and Gray, G.E., Catalogue of the Mammalia and Birds of New Guinea in the Collection of the British Museum
(London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1859) 69) Gray, John Edward, Hand List of the Specimens of Shield Reptiles in the
British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1873) 70) Gray, John Edward, Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs, and Fruit-Easting
Bats in the Collection of the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1870) 71) Gray, John Edward, Hand List
of Seals, Morses, and Sea-Bears in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1874) 72) Gresham Colledge,
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artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge (London: 1681) 74) Gurney, J.H., notes
on Mr. Layard’s Birds of South Africa (1868) 75) Gurney, J.H., Notes on the Birds of Prey of Madagascar and some of the Adjacent
Islands (1869) 76) Gurney, J.H., On a New Species of Harrier from New Caledonia (1865) 77) Gulick, J.T., Descriptions of New
Species of Achatinella, from the Hawaiian Islands (1856) 78) Haller, Alberti V., Historia Naturalis Ranarum Nostratium in
Qua Omnes Carum Proprietates (Nuremberg: 1755) 79) Harmonia Ruralis, or an Essay toward a Natural History of British Song
Birds: illustrated with figures, the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes, etc. (London:
Gilling, 1824) 80) Harris, John, Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or a complete collection of voyages and travels
(London: 1764) 81) Havell, Robert, A Selection of Hexandrian Plants Belonging to the natural Orders Amaryllidae and Liliace
(London: 1831-1834) 82) Heck, J.G., Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art, systematically arranged (New
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and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals of the different parts of the world (London: 1748-1752) 85)
Houghton, Rev. W., Sea Side Walks of a Naturalist with his Children (London: Groombridge & Sons, 1870) 86) Jardin, Sir William,
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characters, arrangement, etc. (London: Reeve & Benkam, 1851) 92) Latham, John, A General Synopsis of Birds, indet Ornithologicus,
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Collected at the Island of Sombrero, W.I., with the observations of A.A. Julien (1864) 94) Lawrence, George N., Descriptions
of New Species of Birds of the Genera Chordeites and Polioptila (1856) 95) Lawrence, George N., Catalogue of a Collection
of Birds made in New Granada, by James McLeannan, Esq. of New York, with notes and descriptions of new species (1863) 96)
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Lindley, John, The vegetable Kingdom: or the structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the Natural System
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History of Quadrupeds and Other Mammiferous Animals, comprising a description of Class Mammalia (London, 1840) 109) Martyn,
Thomas, The English Entomologist, exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England (London: 1792) 110) McDonald, Alexander,
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