Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology : Birds, Books and Business

McGhie, Henry A.

Manchester University Press（2017/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 368 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781784994136
• DDC分類 598.092

Full Description

This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838-1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on previously unpublished archival material. Dresser travelled widely and spent time in Texas during the American Civil War. He built enormous collections of skins and eggs of birds from Europe, North America and Asia, which formed the basis of over 100 publications, including some of the finest bird books of the late nineteenth century. Dresser was a leading figure in scientific society and in the early bird conservation movement; his correspondence and diaries reveal the inner workings, motivations, personal relationships and rivalries that existed among the leading ornithologists.

Contents

Introduction
1 Family background and early life
2 Texas: the big adventure
3 Settling down to business
4 Early exploits in ornithological society
5 Collecting
6 'Discovering' the birds of Europe, I
7 'Discovering' the birds of Europe, II
8 Making The Birds of Europe
9 A central figure: society life in the 1870s
10 The 1880s: the rise of rivalry
11 The 1890s: the continuing rise of the British Museum (Natural History)
12 Working independently, 1900-5
13 The grand finale: the Eggs of the Birds of Europe
14 Time for a change
15 Legacies
Appendices
References
Bibliography of Henry Dresser
Index of birds
Index