| Description |
xii, 482 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
New naturalist ; [104] |
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New naturalist library ; 140 |
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New naturalist.
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New naturalist ; 104
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1 Up to the Sixteenth Century 1 -- 2 The First Bird Book 24 -- 3 The First British List 42 -- 4 The Willughby/Ray Ornithology and Other Seventeenth- -- Century Works 59 -- 5 The Systema naturae: Dawn of a New Age 82 -- 6 The First Ornithological Ecologists: White, Jenner -- and Blackwall 100oo -- 7 Early studies of migration: Legg, Jenner and others 123 -- 8 A Dictionary and Two Histories 139 -- 9 The Artists and Their Avifaunas 159 -- 10 Alfred Newton and the Founding of the British -- Ornithologists' Union 183 -- 11 Theories of Classification, the National Collection and -- the Catalogue ofBirds 209 -- 12 The Twentieth Century: Winds of Change 235 -- 13 Recording the Avifauna of Britain 261 -- 14 Migration: the Scientific Studies Begin 290 -- 15 Plumage, Cages, Eggs and Shooting: the History of -- Bird Protection 314 -- 16 Behavioural and Ecological Studies 334 -- 17 After the War 351 -- 18 Post-War Ornithological Research 373 -- 19 The British List and Problems with Fraud 395 -- 20 New Slants on Old Problems 421 -- Appendix: The British List 430 -- References and Further Reading 446 |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [446]-460) and index |
| Subject |
British Ornithologists' Union -- History.
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Ornithology -- Great Britain -- History.
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| LC no. |
2008360674 |
| ISBN |
0007199694 (hbk.) |
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0007199708 (paperback) |
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9780007199693 (hbk.) |
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9780007199709 (paperback) |
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