The natural history of the Oxford district / contributions edited by James J. Walker
1926, 1st edition. London : Oxford University Press. Provenance: Bookplate of Alan Thornton. Poor paperback copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Covers water stained; spine worn. Text remains clear and without blemish. Item #405292
Physical description; 336 pp.: illustrations ; 19 cm. Contents; Physiography / H. O. Beckit ; Climate / W. G. Kendrew ; Early settlement / E. T. Leeds ; Modern settlement / H. O. Beckit ; Geology : General; the Jurassic system, etc. / W. J. Sollas ; Superficial deposits / K. S. Sandford ; Appendix; the Corallian period / W. J. Arkell ; Botany / G. Claridge Druce ; Ornithology / F. C. R. Jourdain ; Entomology: introduction / J. J. Walker ; Orthoptera, Neuroptera, etc. / W. J. Lucas ; Hymenoptera / A. H. Hamm ; Coleoptera / J. J. Walker ; Lepidoptera : Rhopalocera / J. J. Walker ; Macro-Lepidoptera / J. J. Walker ; Micro-Lepidoptera / E. G. R. Waters ; Diptera and Siphonaptera / A. H. Hamm ; Hemiptera / J. Collins ; Arachnida / A. W. Pickard-Cambridge ; Mollusca / L. W. Grensted ; The Hope Department, Oxford University Museum / E. B. Poulton ; The Pitt-Rivers Museum / H. Balfour ; The Old Ashmolean Museum, and the Lewis Evans collection of scientific instruments / R. T. Gunther. Subjects; Geology England Oxford. Natural history.
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