The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
Author : Bombay Natural History Society
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Natural history
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Author : Bombay Natural History Society
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Natural history
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Author : Bombay Natural History Society
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Page : 784 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Natural history
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Author : Bombay Natural History Society
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Natural history
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Author : J. C. Daniel
Publisher : Bombay Natural History Society
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : History
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This collection of articles by officers of the Indian Army records the contributions of the Army to natural history over a period of more than two hundred years. It builds on the premise that the study of the Indian subcontinent's natural history was more or less the exclusive preserve of these officers. Beginning with the fading years of the eighteenth century, the natural history-inclined officers of the Indian Army studied the flora and fauna, particularly the fauna, in their leisure hours and became experts on it. Their findings were recorded in various journals in the U.K., and after 1886 mainly in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. A valuable feature of this book is a pamphlet (the twenty-fifth article in the collection) sent to the Indian Government by the Army through the Society by Lieutenant Colonel Burton, which drew the attention of the former to the dire need to conserve the country's wildlife, and in due course saw the formation of the Indian Board for Wildlife. The book is thus a tribute to this remarkable aspect of the Indian Army which, apart from fighting in the field, fought a battle to conserve the country's wonderful and almost incomparable natural heritage spread over a zoogeographical area over thirty degrees of latitude encompassing almost every type of climate met with in the world.
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Page : 734 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 1981
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Author : Stanley Henry Prater
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Animals
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Author : Robert B. Payne
Publisher : Bird Families of the World
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0198502133
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Author : Van Wallach
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1237 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1482208482
Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species-the first catalogue of its kind-covers all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 and 2012, comprising 3,509 living and 274 extinct species allocated to 539 living and 112 extinct genera. Also included are 54 genera and 302 species that are dubious or invalid, resulting in reco
Author : Chelmala Srinivasulu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0429880898
This book is an up-to-date comprehensive resource on the names (scientific, English and vernacular) of the mammals of South Asia. This work is first of its kind that deals with explanation of names of mammals at the species and subspecies level.
Author : Thomas Gay
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780195688016
Written by experts in the field, this accessible and richly illustrated book describes more than ninety species of butterflies from all over India. The butterflies described in this book include the rare and beautiful Kaiser-i-Hind, the readily visible Common Gull, the pretty Yellow Pansy, and the world's best known and widely distributed butterfly, the Painted Lady. Easy to read, the Butterflies of India includes an informative introduction that discusses the amazing life cycle of butterflies. It also details the preferred larval food plants of the butterflies that are discussed in the book and carries notes on variations between butterflies, butterfly watching, and butterfly conservation, as well as a glossary. Adding value to the text are numerous illustrations of different species of butterflies and their larvae. Part of the "WWF-OUP Nature Guides" series, Butterflies of India, though designed keeping younger readers in mind, will appeal equally to older readers including parents and teachers, as well as nature lovers.