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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    December 2014
    July 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107256446
    9781108069861
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107256446
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.58kg, 462 Pages
    • Subjects:
    History of Science, Life Sciences, Zoology, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology
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    Subjects:
    History of Science, Life Sciences, Zoology, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology
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    Although devoted to his parish, Leonard Jenyns (1800–93) combined his clerical duties with keen research into natural history. Notably, he was offered the place on the Beagle that later went to Charles Darwin. His numerous works include A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals (1835) and Observations in Meteorology (1858), both of which are reissued in this series. First published in 1846, the present work was originally intended as a companion volume to Gilbert White's acclaimed Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789), which Jenyns had copied out as a student at Eton. The product of two decades of meticulous observation of Jenyns' surroundings in eastern England, the text includes journal entries with careful records on a wide variety of wildlife, including quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects and molluscs. Also featuring a detailed calendar of periodic phenomena, this work illuminates the rhythms and quirks of the natural world in England.

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