Download or read book History of British Reptiles Classic Reprint written by Thomas Bell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of British Reptiles In the Chelonians, or Tortoises, and in the Ophidians, or Serpent tribe, the extremes of these different types of organization are exhibited. In the common European land Tortoise, Testudo Gram, which may be selected as a familiar example of the former group, the whole struc ture of the skeleton is brought into the most compact and solid state. The bones of the cranium and face are consolidated into a single and. Immovable case, with scarcely the vestige of sutures showing the separation of the different centres of ossification upon which it has been formed; there are no teeth, but the margins Of the upper and of the lower jaw are covered by a horny beak, the latter being received into a groove of the former, and thus closing like the lid of a box; then the whole of the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, the bones representing the sterno-costal cartilages, and the broad united sternum, are altogether compacted into a case of bone, without any separation between the parts of which it is composed. The anterior and posterior extremities are fully developed, but, instead of being placed exterior to the thorax, they are all of them contained within its cavity, and even the bones of the feet are only extended beyond the horny box which protects them, when the animal is employing them in progression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of British Fossil Reptiles written by Richard Owen and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Reptiles and Amphibians written by A. Nicol Simpson and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book British Reptiles and Batrachians written by Hopley Catherine Cooper and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book British Reptiles Amphibians and Fresh Water Fishes Classic Reprint written by W. Percival Westell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fresh-Water Fishes It is hoped that this third volume of "The Abbey Nature Books" will be no less popular than the preceding volumes devoted to British Mammals and British Birds. A feature of this third book in the series is that practically every species included is illustrated, and these illustrations, together with the descriptive matter, will, it is hoped, result in more attention being paid to these classes of animals than heretofore. The Author has to acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr. Frank Gibson's "Superstitions about Animals," and to Mr. C. Tate Regan's admirable book on "The Fresh-Water Fishes of the British Isles," to which the reader is confidently referred for more detailed information concerning the third class of animals included in this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of British Reptiles written by Thomas Bell and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life History of British Lizards written by Gerald R. Leighton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life-History of British Lizards: And Their Local Distribution in the British Isles Two years ago, in 1901, when I published my book on British Serpents, a kindly critic was good enough to say that the only fault he had to find with that book was that it did not deal with the lizards as well. I am only too conscious that there were many other faults in that book, but I have in this present work endeavoured to remove the one indicated. This book is intended as a companion volume to the first; the two together completing the account of all the British reptiles, snakes and lizards, from the point of view of the field naturalist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book British Natural History Studies written by William Percival Westell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Natural History Studies: Reptiles, Amphibians, Fishes, Etc The Common lizard.-this is the smallest of the three British lizards, and is a handsome little species. It feeds almost entirely on an insect dietary; is a good swimmer; produces its young alive, the egg hatching within its own body, and differing from the sand lizard in this respect. Hence this species is called viviparous, whilst the next species is called oviparous. These are most interesting points which the reader should not lose sight of. Three or four young ones are born sometimes more - and these are very dark in colour, almost black. The adult lizard is greenish-brown, has black or dark brown longitudinal bands, and a bright orange-yellow belly spotted with black. The Sand Lizard - The sand lizard is a much rarer species than its last - named relative. It resorts to the plains, and may be identified from the com mon lizard by having teeth and smaller scales. It varies a good deal in colour; brown in various shades tinged with green, white on belly, spotted minutely with black. On the back and sides there are rows of white spots which vary in number. The eggs, which number about twelve, are deposited in the sand, where they hatch unassisted by the parents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of British Reptiles written by Thomas Bell and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Zoology Vol 3 written by Thomas Pennant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Zoology, Vol. 3: Class III. Reptiles; IV. Fish So that a man cannot fay this is worfe than that, for in time they {hall all be well approved. Ecclesiasticus mm. 33, 34. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Reptiles of British India Classic Reprint written by Albert C. L. G. Gunther and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Reptiles of British India The coincidence of several most favourable circumstances, which seemed to promise a fair success, induced me to entertain the idea of making the Reptilian fauna of British India the subject of a special work; and I was confirmed in this, as I had frequent opportunities of observing that such a work would supply a real want among a class of men residing in India, who, imbued with a desire to promote Natural History knowledge, are deterred by the want of a work which would guide them in their first steps to acquainting themselves with objects coming daily under their notice, and which would show them where and how new facts may be gathered. As this work is the first attempt to comprise the entire Reptilian fauna of the continent of the Indian region, it must be in many respects incomplete, although I trust it will form a basis for the labours of future times. Every one who makes the fauna of a country an object of special study has a triple task before him: first, to distinguish and systematically to arrange the species as exactly as possible; secondly, to make himself acquainted with their habits; and, thirdly, to ascertain the geographical range of each variety, of each species, of each genus. A perfect knowledge of the species is the first condition, without which progress in the two latter respects is impossible; and it is much more the part of that zoologist who is furnished with a complete series of the objects for repeated comparison and examination, and has access to the thousand volumes through which descriptions and notes are scattered, than of the naturalist and collector who has the opportunity of observing the animals in their natural haunts; on him mainly devolves the fullfillment of the two latter tasks; but scarcely anything has been done in this respect as far as the Indian Reptiles are concerned, and therefore my work, in its present shape, is one of abstract science. I have enjoyed the great advantage of unlimited access to collections accumulated in this country from the time of Russell. A considerable number of the types used by this pioneer in Indian Ophiology are still preserved in the collections of the British Museum and of the Royal College of Surgeons; the types, with a very few exceptions, of the species described by Shaw, Gray, and myself, form part of the collection of the British Museum. Cantor had sent invaluable collections, containing his types, to the University of Oxford, where a part of the specimens, with his early manuscripts and drawings, are still preserved, and at a later period to the Museum of the East India Company, which contained also a number of the types sent by Kelaart and Griffith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Natural History Reptiles Classic Reprint written by Philip Henry Gosse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Natural History Reptiles In one respect in which Reptiles agree among themselves, they agree also with the Classes of Birds and Fishes; the reproduction of their spe cies is effected by means of eggs. For the most part these are encased in a calcareous covering, either hard and Shelly as in the Tortoises, Croco diles and some Saurians, or tough and leathery as in most of the Serpents: in the Amphibia, however, they are destitute of any covering. In a few in stances, the young are brought forth alive; but these are rather apparent than real exceptions to the general rule, the eggs in such cases being hatched in the body of the parent, or ruptured in the act of deposition. Our native smaller Lizard, Viper, and Slow-worm, afford familiar examples of this peculiarity. Reptiles do not in general ineu bate their eggs; but there is reason to believe that the Boas and Pythons are exceptions to this rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Hand List of the Specimens of Shield Reptiles in the British Museum Classic Reprint written by John Edward Gray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hand-List of the Specimens of Shield Reptiles in the British Museum The new species or improvements in the arrangement of the animals that may have been discovered since the publication of these works have been adopted, and a reference made to where they have been described. When any of the specimens have served as the types of a description or figure of the species in any scientific work, reference is made to where the description and figure are to be found. Whenever the specimen has been presented or obtained directly from a collector, the name of the presentor or collector, and the habitat sent with the specimen, has been recorded immediately after the specimen, but the far greater number of the specimens have been obtained from dealers with only the most general habitats. The condition in which the specimen is preserved, its size, and often the age and sex, when known with certainty, are recorded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Guide to the Gallery of Reptilia written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Guide to the Gallery of Reptilia: In the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History) The exhibition of mounted specimens of Reptiles offers greater difficulties than that of the other classes of Vertebrate animals. Only the larger and hard-skinned forms, like Crocodiles and Tortoises, can be preserved in a dried state without distortion of their natural features; whilst every attempt at reproducing the finely moulded body of a Lizard or Snake, or at restoring the exquisite arrangement of their scales, has ended in failure. Neither has plastic art of ancient or modern times succeeded in producing a faithful or life-like representation of a Reptile. Crocodiles and Tortoises are, therefore, represented in this Gallery by a comparatively much larger number of specimens than the two other orders, which comprise many more species. But in the present Guide, which has for one of its objects to give a general account of these animals, a more uniform treatment of the subject has been adopted. In its preparation I have been assisted by Mr. G. A. Boulenger, the assistant in charge of these Collections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Our Reptiles and Batrachians written by M. C. Cooke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Reptiles and Batrachians: A Plain and Easy Account of the Lizards, Snakes, Newts, Toads, Frogs and Tortoises Indigenous to Great Britain Later years, and almost confined myself to plants; but in a foolish moment, perhaps, the old hankering to have a word or two with one's first love has come over me, and resulted in this humble account of Our Reptiles. I make no pretensions to the production of anything more than a popular volume on a rather unpopular subject, to the espousal of the cause of a much-abused and scandalised class; and if I only aid in recovering their character from a little of the obloquy which attaches to them, I shall not regret the venture. The -man of science, if he seeks for that which is novel or abstruse, had better close the book and go no further. I do not presume to have written anything for him; but for those who know little or nothing of the subject, I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Descriptive Catalogue of the Reptiles of British India Classic Reprint written by William Theobald and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Reptiles of British India My descriptions of species will be found to vary greatly in length and as regards the amount of detail given; but this is intentional, as my object is not to give an exhaustive description of any species, but merely such a description, and so much detail of its structure, as will enable the student to specifically determine it, my object being the production of a useful working student's handbook, rather than a more preten tious Zoological monograph, which must be the work of some future decade; at the same time I am so conscious of its many shortcomings, that nothing but my urgent sense of the want of some such work emboldens me to come forward with what I cannot but think will be an accept able contribution to brother naturalists in India, interest ed in this branch of natural science, or the class of men as they have been contemptuously described, who are desirous of acquainting themselves with animals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of British Fossil Reptiles written by Richard Owen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of British Fossil Reptiles, Vol. 3 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
