Research Catalog

Title

A century of zoology at the British Museum through the lives of two keepers, 1815-1914 / by Albert E. Gunther.

Author

Gunther, A. E. (Albert Everard), 1903-1998.

Publication

London : Dawsons, 1975.

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Details

Description

533 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Günther, Albert C. L. G (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf), 1830-1914
• Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875
• Ponther, Albert, 1830-1914
• British Museum (Natural History)
• British Museum
• England
• Zoology > Great Britain > History
• Zoologists > Great Britain > Biography
• Zoology > history
• Museums > history

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 476-513.

Contents

John Edward Gray, 1800-1875. Early life and education ; Botanical prelude, 1818-1822 ; The British Museum at Montagu House, 1816-1829 ; The British Museum, 1830-1840 ; The concept of a national museum, 1836 ; Social reform, 1826-1840 ; Keeper of zoology, I, 1840-1856 ; The British Museum Library Commission, 1847-1850 ; Professor Owen, superintendant ; The new museum ; Keeper of zoology, II, 1857-1868 ; Keeper of zoology, III, 1869-1875 ; Estimate as a zoologist ; Character and humanity ; Postscript-the Crawshay letters, 1862-1873 -- Albert Gunther, 1830-1914. Boyhood, 1830-1847 ; Tübingen University, 1847-1851 ; Medical student, 1851-1854 ; Doctor of medicine, 1854-1857 ; At the British Museum, 1857 ; Catalogue of fishes, 1858-1869 ; The zoological record, 1865 ; India and Africa ; Zoology in the 1870s ; Keeper of zoology, I, 1875-1882 ; The new museum, 1868-1881 ; The directorship, 1884-1895 ; The catalogue of birds ; Marine biological research ; Keeper of zoology, II, 1883-1895 ; Walter Rothschild and others ; Retirement 1895-later directors ; The last years, 1907-1914 ; The problem of Darwinism ; Epitome.

ISBN

• 0712906185
• 9780712906180

LCCN

75311440

OCLC

• ocm01365488
• 1365488
• SCSB-356728

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library