Author: Wiegmann, A. F. A. [Troschel, F. H. (ed.)]
Title: Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Gegründet von A. F. A. Wiegmann, fortgezetzt von W. F. Erichson. In Verbindung mit Prof. Dr. Grisebach in Göttingen, Prof. Dr. von Siebold in Freiburg, Prof. A. Wagner in München und Dr. Leuckart in Göttingen. herausgegeben von Dr. F. H. Troschel, Professor an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn. Zwanzichster Jahrgang.
Description: Berlin, Nicolai, 1854. One Volume in two. 8vo (21.5 x 13.0 cm). 859 pp. [iv, 378; iv, 473] pp., 13 engraved plates. Contemporary uniform brown half leather over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. = This is a seldom-seen, rather early volume of the important natural history journal (a.k.a. Wiegmann's Archive) founded by Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann (1802-1841), and edited by the German malacologist Franz Hermann Troschel (1810-1882). The work consists of two parts: original contributions (in one volume), and in the second volume a review of what has been published in the various fields of natural history in the previous year, 1853. From 1864 onwards the "Zoological Records" covered the same subject, but before that date the Wiegmann's Archive was the only comprehensive source of bibliographical natural history data. Of crustaceological interest is Zenker's Monographie der Ostracoden, with six plates, and Ueber die Cyclopiden der süssen Wassers, and Ueber Asellus aquaticus, and System der Crustaceeen, all by Zenker too. Of malacological interest is F. H. Troschel's Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Pteropoden, with three plates. Troschel became the leading authority on molluscan radulae, publishing numerous papers on this subject. Provenance: small stamp of the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle on the title page. Boards rather worn, spine covers lost; some scattered light spotting, otherwise very good, complete.

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