Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology (eBook)

Birds, books and business

Henry A. McGhie (Autor)

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2017
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
9781526116024 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838–1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author examines how Dresser and his contemporaries discovered and documented birds across the globe.

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This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838-1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on previously unpublished archival material. Dresser travelled widely and spent time in Texas during the American Civil War. He built enormous collections of skins and eggs of birds from Europe, North America and Asia, which formed the basis of over 100 publications, including some of the finest bird books of the late nineteenth century. Dresser was a leading figure in scientific society and in the early bird conservation movement; his correspondence and diaries reveal the inner workings, motivations, personal relationships and rivalries that existed among the leading ornithologists.

Autor

Henry A. McGhie is Head of Collections and Curator of Zoology at Manchester Museum, the University of Manchester

Inhalt

Introduction
1 Family background and early life
2 Texas: the big adventure
3 Settling down to business
4 Early exploits in ornithological society
5 Collecting
6 ‘Discovering’ the birds of Europe, I
7 ‘Discovering’ the birds of Europe, II
8 Making The Birds of Europe
9 A central figure: society life in the 1870s
10 The 1880s: the rise of rivalry
11 The 1890s: the continuing rise of the British Museum (Natural History)
12 Working independently, 1900–5
13 The grand finale: the Eggs of the Birds of Europe
14 Time for a change
15 Legacies
Appendices
References
Bibliography of Henry Dresser
Index of birds
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.12.2017
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: American Civil War • bird collecting • Birds • bird specimens • cabinet collecting • English ornithologists • Environmental Geography • exploration • field collecting • Henry Dresser • History of Science • History of the Birds of Europe • Museum Studies • Natural History • Ornithology • Richard Sharpe • scientific societies • Victorian ornithology • Victorian Studies • Zoological Society of London
• ISBN-13: 9781526116024 / 9781526116024