Author: JOHNSTON, GEORGE
Title: A History of the British Zoophytes
Description: Edinburgh: W H Lizars, 1838. First Edition. Dark green hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xii, 341pp + plates. 44 b/w plates. A Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, George Johnston lived in Berwick-upon-Tweed in the north-east of England. He found zoophytes a particularly fruitful field of study. To the physiologist, sponges, jellyfish, corals and various invertebrate animals, such as a sea anemone or sponge, that attach to surfaces and superficially resemble plants, and the like presented the simplest independent structures compatible with the existence of animal life, enabling him to examine some of its phenomena in isolation from the greater complexity that higher anatomies entail.. Worn condition. Cover rubbed. Split to spine. Plates foxed. Inner hinge cracking but content in overall good condition .

Keywords: Natural History Science 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian


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