Download or read book The Fresh water Pearls and Pearl Fisheries of the United States written by George Frederick Kunz and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fresh Water Pearls and Pearl Fisheries of the United States written by George Frederick Kunz and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Pearls written by Howard E. Washburn and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fresh water Pearls and Perl Fisheries of the United States written by George F. Kunz and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Price written by R. A. Donkin and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1998 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man has been intrigued by the origin of pearls, sensitive to their beauty, and convinced of their medicinal value for at least 5 cent. A mixture of folklore and observation preceded the earliest scientific inquiries. Fishing and trade commenced in S. Asia, between India and Sri Lanka and around the Persian Gulf. In W. and Central Europe, Inner Asia and China, and N. Amer. Freshwater pearls were probably known and treasured before those of marine origin. A refined nomenclature points to a long familiarity with etymologically related words for 'pearl'. Pearls were prominent among the luxury products of world trade and were high among the objectives of expeditions to the eastern and western Tropics. Illustrations.
Download or read book Pearls and Pearling written by Herbert Harvey Vertrees and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Process for Preserving the Pearl oyster Fisheries and for Increasing the Value of the Yield of Pearls written by John I. Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries written by United States. Bureau of Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission written by United States Fish Commission and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Popular Science Monthly and World Advance written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appletons Popular Science Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freshwater Mussels of Texas written by Robert G. Howells and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Species. Freshwater mussels are the most rapidly declining group of animals in North America. This guide represents a first-ofits-kind reference to assist both biologists and naturalists in the identification and study of freshwater mussels. Freshwater Mussels of Texas contains 224 pages with 226 black and white photographs, 144 color photographs and 79 line drawings covering all 52 species found in Texas waters. Introductory sections cover basic anatomy, reproduction.
Download or read book The Book of the Pearl written by George Frederick Kunz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flatheads and Spooneys written by Jens Lund and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1800s, people have made a living fishing and harvesting mussels in the lower Ohio Valley. These river folk are conscious of an occupational and social identity separate from those who earn their living from the land. Sustained by a shared love of the river, deriving joy from the beauty of their chosen environment, and feeling great pride in their ability to subsist on its wild resources and to master the skills required to make a living from it, many still identify with the nomadic houseboat-dwelling subculture that flourished on the river from the early nineteenth century to the 1950s. Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex set of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spoonies, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisher folk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life. Lund connects the importance of river fish in the diet of inhabitants of the valley to local fishing activities and explores the relationship between river people and those whose culture is primarily land-based, painting a colorful portrait of river fishing and river life. This book offers a look—historical and ethnographic—at a little-known aspect of traditional life in the American Midwest, still surviving today despite immense changes in environment, resources, and economic base.
Download or read book North American Freshwater Mussels written by Wendell R. Haag and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesizes the ecology and natural history of North American freshwater mussels for scientists, natural resource professionals, students and natural history enthusiasts.
Download or read book Freshwater Mussel Ecology written by David L. Strayer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearly mussels (Unionoidea) live in lakes, rivers, and streams around the world. These bivalves play important roles in freshwater ecosystems and were once both culturally and economically valuable as sources of food, pearls, and mother-of-pearl. Today, however, hundreds of species of these mussels are extinct or endangered. David L. Strayer provides a critical synthesis of the factors that control the distribution and abundance of pearly mussels. Using empirical analyses and models, he assesses the effects of dispersal, habitat quality, availability of fish hosts, adequate food, predators, and parasites. He also addresses conservation issues that apply to other inhabitants of fresh waters around the globe and other pressing issues in contemporary ecology.
Download or read book Appletons Popular Science Monthly April 1899 written by Various and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
