Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1916. Ex-Library. Near-Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 702 p. Illustrated. Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum. Includes extensive illustrated articles on a variety of flora and fauna from around the globe, including dipterous genus Symphoromyia in North America; Javanese crane-flies; albino salamanders; Philippine land shells; fossil mollusks west coast of America; Washington relics in the US National Museum; Eperetmus; Medeba mosaic map of Palestine; US grasshoppers; Tettigniid insects of America; British fossil insects; bivalve shells ot the west coast of America; molluscan of northwest America; Entomostraca of Colorado; amphibians and reptiles of Michigan; North American Ichneumon-flies; new restoration of Stegosaurus; fore limb of Allosaurus; Osteology of Thescelosaurus of Wyoming; Euphausiacean crustaceans of Albatross Expedition to the Philippines; extinct Sirenian Desmostylus herpus March; fresh-water shells from the Ozark Mountains; raccoons; dragonflies of Washington and Oregon; flies; crustaceans; anodontites of Brazil; Indarch Russia meteor stone; carbonic acid tests of the weathering of marble and limestone; races of crested terns; spotted owl; crustecea collected by the Walker Expedition to Santa Marta, Columbia; new species of Hymenoptera; fishes of the Gulf of California; muscoid flies; oolite from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Allophanite, Fuchsite, and Triphylite; and more. Only indication of ex-library status is bookplate from the Sturgis Library in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Minor spotting to top of front board. Near fine..

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Seller's Inventory #: LL-b1010-02
Title: Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 49
Author: Editor
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near-Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington, DC
Date Published: 1916
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATURAL HISTORY FOSSILS
Bookseller catalogs: Sturgis Library;

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