Guide to the Gallery of Birds in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
Guide to the Gallery of Birds in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).

Author: Sidney F. Harmer

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1473341361

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This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the birds exhibited at the Department of Zoology in the British Museum in 1910. With detailed descriptions of habitat, natural history, anatomy, and more, this volume will be of considerable interest to ornithologists and collectors of vintage ornithological literature. "Description of the Specimens in the Bird Gallery", "Saururae", "Ratitae", "Carinate", "Acromyodi", "Saururae", "Neornithes", "Rheiformes", "Rhea", "Moas", "Emus", "Cassowaries", "Kiwis", "Game birds", "True Game Birds", "Megapodes", "Description of the Nesting-Series of British Birds", "Explanation of Plates", "Appendix on the Structure of Birds", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete the original artwork and text.

Red Coats and Wild Birds
Red Coats and Wild Birds

Author: Kirsten A. Greer

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2019-11-21

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1469649845

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During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. While these bases helped the British project power and secure trade routes, they served more than just a strategic purpose. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. In this ambitious history of ornithology and empire, Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world, just as migratory birds traversed borders from season to season. Greer examines the lives, writings, and collections of a number of ornithologist-officers, arguing that the transnational encounters between military men and birds simultaneously shaped military strategy, ideas about race and masculinity, and conceptions of the British Empire. Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it. Through its examination of the influence of bird watching on military science and soldiers' contributions to ornithology, Red Coats and Wild Birds remaps empire, nature, and scientific inquiry in the nineteenth-century world.