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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : McGhie, Henry A.
Titre(s) : Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology [Texte imprimé] : birds, books and business / Henry A. McGhie
Publication : Manchester : Manchester university press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXIV-341 p. - [32] p. de pl.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 285-318. Index. - "Bibliography of Henry Dresser": pages 319-327
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is largely based on previously unpublished archival material.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
Sujet(s) : Dresser, Henry Eeles (1838-1915)
Ornithologie -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
598.092 (23e éd.) = Oiseaux - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781784994136. - ISBN 1784994138 (rel.). - ISBN 9781526116024 (erroné) (ePub
ebook). - ISBN 9781526116017 (erroné) (PDF ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45599844w
Notice n° :
FRBNF45599844
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; Family background and early life ; Texas : the big adventure ;
Settling down to business ; Early exploits in ornithological society ; Collecting
; Discovering the birds of Europe, I ; Discovering the birds of Europe, II ; Making
The birds of Europe ; A central figure : society life in the 1870s ; The 1880s :
the rise of rivalry ; The 1890s : the continuing rise of the British Museum (Natural
History) ; Working independently, 1900-5 ; The grand finale : producing Eggs of
the birds of Europe ; Time for a change ; Legacies ; Appendix 1. Birds mentioned
in the text ; Appendix 2. Birds named by Henry Dresser ; Appendix 3. Birds named
after Henry Dresser ; Appendix 4. Publications based on Henry Dresser's collections,
1985-2017.
