American Natural History Studies: The Bairdian Period

A dozen reprints on birds and mammals extracted from reports of expeditions to various parts of North America in the latter half of the 19th Century, a period dominated by Spencer Fullerton Baird. Included are several papers by Baird; Pribilov Group, or Seal Islands, of Alaska by Elliott; Quadrupeds of Illinois by Kennicott; ornithological reports from the Wheeler exploration of the one hundreth meridian by Yarrow & Henshaw. Red cloth.