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| A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals / JENYNS Leonard, 1835 | |||||||||
A manual of British vertebrate animals : or, Descriptions of all the animals belonging
to the classes, Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, and Pisces, which have been Hitherto
observed in the British Islands : including the domesticated, naturalized, and extirpated
species; the whole systematically arranged. By the Rev. Leonard Jenyns, M. A. Fellow
of the linnean, zoological, and entomological societies of London; and the Cambridge
philosophical society.
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JENYNS Leonard
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« The present Work contains descriptions of all the Vertebrate Animals, including the domesticated, naturalized, and extirpated species, which have been hitherto observed in the British Islands. The object of its author is to present Naturalists with a Manual in this department of our Fauna, adapted to the existing state of our knowledge, and such as shall be calculated to meet the wants of the Science in that advanced stage to which it has attained since the publication of former works of this nature. furtherance of this end two points appeared necessary to be attended to. One was to ascertain, as far as practicable, the additions which had been made of late years to our lists of British Animals, to inquire into the respective claims of those which had been admitted into these lists. previously, and carefully to distinguish between such species as have unquestionably occurred within the limits of our own Islands, or in the adjoining seas, and others of which reasonable doubts might be entertained in reference to this matter. The other important point, as it appeared to the author, was to take care that the descriptions should as far as possible be obtained from the animals themselves, and nothing inserted upon the credit of other writers which was capable of being verified by personal examination. The day is for ever gone by in which mere compilations will be thought to be of any service to the science of Zoology. […] » Présentation de l’éditeur (1835)
« London, 1838. » Huth (1887)
: Angleterre , equus , mammifère , zoologie