Discovery of Australia's fishes : a history of Australian ichthyology to 1930 /

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This book traces the discovery of Australia's fishes from the earliest days of taxonomy to the first part of the 20th century. It provides a unique insight into the diverse pathways by which Australia's fish were discovered and outlines the history of early maritime explorations in Austral...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saunders, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Collingwood, VIC : CSIRO Pub., ©2012.
Temas:
Ichthyology > Australia > History.
Ichthyologists > Biography.
Ichtyologie > Australie > Histoire.
Ichtyologistes > Biographies.
NATURE > Animals > Fish.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Ichthyology & Herpetology.
Ichthyologists
Ichthyology
Australia
Australien
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. One (to 1800)
  • Early ichthyology to the time of Ray and Willughby
  • Artedi, Linnaeus and the Systema Naturae
  • Linnaeus' students, their voyages of discovery, and their French contemporaries
  • Seba, Dutch naturalists and the stadholder's cabinet
  • Bloch and Schneider, Pallas, Lacepede, Broussonet
  • British Museum before 1800 (Shaw)
  • Voyages to Australia before 1800
  • Collections in Australia before 1800
  • pt. Two (1800 to 1870)
  • Flinders (Bauer, Brown) and Baudin (Peron and Lesueur)
  • French voyages (1817 to 1840)
  • Darwin (Jenyns)
  • Cuvier and Valenciennes, and their contributors
  • Gray at the British Museum, and the Bennetts
  • Richardson
  • Ichthyology and empire
  • Continental ichthyology
  • Bleeker
  • Gunther
  • Fish collection and ichthyology in Australia (1800 to 1870)
  • pt. Three (1870 to 1930)
  • Castelnau
  • Interregnum
  • Overseas contributions
  • Ogilby
  • Waite
  • McCulloch
  • Contemporaries of Ogilby, Waite and McCulloch
  • glance forward from 1930.

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