Henry A. McGhie

Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology (eBook, ePUB)

Birds, books and business

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on previously unpublished archival material.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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526116024
• Artikelnr.: 57471769

Autorenporträt

Henry A. McGhie is Head of Collections and Curator of Zoology at Manchester Museum, the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

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