Author: A Field Naturalist,
Publisher: London: Richards 1902.
Description: xiii 233p including many diagrams, original publisher's green cloth boards with gilt vignette of two primroses (one thrum, the other pin) to cover and gilt title to spine, very well preserved, hinges still holding very solidly, aged library label of the Cambridge Union Society to endpaper and perforating stamp to title, acquisition date Oct 21st, 1902 to final leaf, fascinating turn-of-the-century rebuttal which "many reviewers hailed as totally destructive of Darwin's theory of the fertilisation of the primrose" (E A Bunyard in Nature, 1904).
Order No: PIP 138642
Language: English
This book has been catalogued with the following subject terms: 19th Century, Biology, Christianity, History of Science
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