Observations in Natural History : With an Introduction on Habits of Observing, as Connected with the Study of that Science (Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology)

Jenyns, Leonard

Cambridge University Press（2014/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 462 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108069861
• DDC分類 508

Full Description

Although devoted to his parish, Leonard Jenyns (1800-93) combined his clerical duties with keen research into natural history. Notably, he was offered the place on the Beagle that later went to Charles Darwin. His numerous works include A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals (1835) and Observations in Meteorology (1858), both of which are reissued in this series. First published in 1846, the present work was originally intended as a companion volume to Gilbert White's acclaimed Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789), which Jenyns had copied out as a student at Eton. The product of two decades of meticulous observation of Jenyns' surroundings in eastern England, the text includes journal entries with careful records on a wide variety of wildlife, including quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects and molluscs. Also featuring a detailed calendar of periodic phenomena, this work illuminates the rhythms and quirks of the natural world in England.

Contents

Preface; Introduction; Observations on quadrupeds; Observations on birds; Notes on particular species of birds; Observations on reptiles; Observations on fishes; Observations on insects; Observations on worms; Observations on mollusks; Remarks on the importance of registers of periodic phenomena in natural history; Calendar of periodic phenomena in natural history; Alphabetical arrangement of the phenomena in the foregoing calendar; General index.