A fauna of the Tay Basin and Strathmore (1906) (14751322012)

Col. Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay

Identifier: faunaoftaybasins00harv (find matches)

Title: A fauna of the Tay Basin & Strathmore

Year: 1906 (1900s)

Authors: Harvie-Brown, J. A. (John Alexander), 1844-1916

Subjects: Zoology Birds Vertebrates

Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas

Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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F.R.S.Cloth, post 8vo. 1898. 13. Diagramatic Chart of the Mountains seen from Corsiehill, Perth, by John Ritchie, LL.B. Cloth, 12mo. 1903. 14. Perthshire Society of Natural Science. Library Catalogue. Demy 8vo. 1903.It will thus be seen that the Society has published detailedrecords of its work during the following periods:— YEARS. Proceedings, .... 1869 to 1870, 1Proceedings, . . . . 1881 to 1886, 5 Transactions and Proceedings, . 1886 to 1905, 19 Total, . . . .25 Included among the local papers published in the Transactionsand Proceedings are several important series dealing with particulardistricts, such as those on the Natural History of Kinnoull Hill, theNatural History of the Banks of the Tay, the Flora of the Tay andits tributaries, the Geology of the various regions of Highland andLowland Perthshire; as well as papers on the Physiography of thecounty and on the origin and distribution of the Fauna and Flora ofthe region. The most important work published by the Society, how-

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COL. MAUEICE DRUMMOND HAT. ANNALS OF PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE, xxvii ever, was the Flora of Perthshire^ on which Dr. Buchanan White wasengaged at intervals during the last twenty-five years of his life, andwhich was issued after his death under the editorship of ProfessorJ. W. H. Trail. The Societys library, which has been added to year by year, nowcontains 2579 volumes, representing 1130 works, all of which have abearing, more or less direct, on natural science subjects. The council,in making their selections, have aimed at acquiring works whichwere beyond the reach of working naturalists of moderate means, aswell as purchasing a certain number of more popular works forbeginners in the study of natural history. The Keference Depart-ment now contains some really valuable scientific works, such as theChalleiiger Reports, the British Museum Catalogues, Dressers Birds ofEurope, Sow erhys English Botany, Jeffreys British Conchology^YovrlersBritish Coleoptera, Barretts British

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