A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata (1896) (14778196722)
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Identifier: handbooktomarsup00lydekk (find matches)
Title: A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Marsupials Monotremes
Publisher: London : E. Lloyd
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries
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pen m o o p PM o o o - ^ ^ ^y^f^w ;r ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ HISTORY. Editkd by R. Bowdi.er Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. A HAND-BOOK TO THE M A R S U P I A L IA AND )\IONOTREMATA/ BY RICHARD LYDEKKER, B.A., RR.S Vice-rresident of the Geological Socie.y, etc., etc., etc. LOKDON COLLcrCTIOM , EDWARD LLOYD, LIMITED, 12, SALISBURY SQUARE, FLEET STREET. 1896. PRINTED r.YWYMAN AND SONS, LIMITRD. PREFACE. The volume which Mr. Lydekker has written will, I believe,be found to be very useful to the student of Mammalia.The volumes of Goulds Mammals of Australia are bothrare and costly, and the object of the Naturalists Librar>is to give, within a handy compass, a scientific, and yetpopular, account of the Australian Mammals. For the scien-tist, Mr. Oldfield Thomass Catalogue of the Marsupialia andMonotremata in the collection of the British Museum isthe indispensable compendium of our knowledge of these twoOrders up to the year 1888. During the six years which havesince elapsed, a few new species hahandbooktomarsup00lydekk