Author: Blyth, Edward
Title: Remarks on the Zoology of the Tenasserim Provinces: Designed for the Guidance of Investigators of the Natural History of that Region
Description: Bishop's College Press 1843 1-20, 25-26 (lacking pp. 21-24), . . HB. 8vo, later cloth. Lacks pages 21-24. Withdrawn from an institutional library with ink stamp to title. Inscribed from the author to Richard Owen (1804-1892), British palaeontologist and comparative anatomist, and critic of Charles Darwin's theory of evoultion. Also with a few manuscript annotations/corrections by the author (e.g. against text 'Examples of the Lesser Flamingo … are wanted for the Asiatic Society's Museum', he has written, 'I have now Calcutta specimens').. Guide to the fauna of the Tenasserim Provinces in Burma. Edward Blyth (1810-1873) was an English zoologist, and curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, India..

Keywords: Fauna; Myanmar; Burma; Southeast Asia; Asia


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