Author: Busk, G.
Title: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and the late captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. prepared under the superintendence of the late Sir. C. Wyville Thomson, Knt., F.R.S., &c. and now of John Murray. Zoology. Report on the Polyzoa collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 Part I. The Cheilostomata.
Description: London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1884. Large 4to (31.7 x 25.2 cm). xxiv, 216 pp.; 59 text figures, 36 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Disbound, original green cloth boards and spine with gilt title present. = A fine monograph by the British naval surgeon, palaeontologist, mammalogist, and invertebrate zoologist (in particular Bryozoa and Tunicata) George Busk (1807-1886). Published in the famous series, The zoology of the Challenger Expedition, as volume XXX, part I. It is also part I of the Polyzoa, dealing with the Cheilostomata, i,e., the Bryozoa, for which it is complete - the second part deals with Tunicata. Contains descriptions of new species. Disbound from a larger volume with monographs on unrelated groups but bookblock binding largely intact; some light spotting to a few leaves, otherwise a good, clean copy. Rare, and far superior to the later reprint. Nissen ZBI, 4754.

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