Author: Huxley, T. H.
Title: On the dermal armour of Jacare and Caiman, with notes on the specific and generic characters of recent Crocodilia.
Description: London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1859. 8vo (22.2 x 14.0 cm). 27 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Rare herpetological paper by Darwin's Bulldog, the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895). Published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society 4(13), together with several unrelated papers, including two on malacology, by Robert Garner On the shell-bearing Mollusca, particularly with regard to the structure and form (eight pp.), and by Sylvanus Hanley On the Linnean manuscript of the "Museum Ulricae (six pp.), discussing some genera abandoned by Linnaeus. Uncut. Wrapper edges very slightly frayed, the spine cover ends chipped. Internally very good, clean.

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