Author: Frost, H.M.; Beaumont, H.E.; Crawford, T.J.; Fryer, G.
Title: Porritt's Lists
Description: YNU / Butterflies Conservation (Yorkshire) 2011 320, 100+ col illus. . PB. Vg. From the library of British coleopterist, Robert Angus, with his small address label to contents page.. 500 copies produced. 'Porritt's Lists' reprints Yorkshire's historical butterfly and moth records, originally published in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and presents them re-arranged into modern order, with explanatory notes and background information. George Porritt (1848-1927) was Yorkshire's first YNU County Lepidoptera Recorder and the first-ever person to collect the county's butterfly and moth records together systematically. Through a journal called Entomological Transactions of the YNU he published his first Lists in parts between 1883 and 1886. Then in 1904 he produced a Supplement followed by a slightly updated summary in the Victoria County History in 1907. Finally a little known Hull Area List published in 1922 was discovered. His Lists cover records from the late 1700s to the early 1900s This book makes all these lists readily available.. [9780956221629]
Keywords: Britain; England; Yorkshire; Lepidoptera; Local Lists
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Title: Porritt's Lists
Description: YNU / Butterflies Conservation (Yorkshire) 2011 320, 100+ col illus. . PB. Vg. From the library of British coleopterist, Robert Angus, with his small address label to contents page.. 500 copies produced. 'Porritt's Lists' reprints Yorkshire's historical butterfly and moth records, originally published in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and presents them re-arranged into modern order, with explanatory notes and background information. George Porritt (1848-1927) was Yorkshire's first YNU County Lepidoptera Recorder and the first-ever person to collect the county's butterfly and moth records together systematically. Through a journal called Entomological Transactions of the YNU he published his first Lists in parts between 1883 and 1886. Then in 1904 he produced a Supplement followed by a slightly updated summary in the Victoria County History in 1907. Finally a little known Hull Area List published in 1922 was discovered. His Lists cover records from the late 1700s to the early 1900s This book makes all these lists readily available.. [9780956221629]
Keywords: Britain; England; Yorkshire; Lepidoptera; Local Lists
Price: GBP 12.00 = appr. US$ 17.14 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: S54700
- Book number: S54700
See more books from our catalog: Entomology,Lepidoptera