Description:Chapters: William Thompson, William Edwin Brooks, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Lesley Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald, Richard Mancliffe Barrington, Killian Mullarney, Richard J. Ussher, Charles Joseph Patten, Robert Warren, John David Digues La Touche. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Thompson (December 2, 1805 February 17, 1852) was an Irish naturalist celebrated for his founding studies of the Natural History of Ireland. He was especially interested in ornithology and marine biology. Born in Belfast, Ireland, the eldest son of a linen merchant, Thompson attended the newly formed Royal Belfast Academical Institution in the increasingly prosperous and vital maritime city of Belfast. Founded by, amongst others, John Templeton a close friend of fellow-botanist Sir Joseph Banks, the school had a strong natural history section and was to produce a cohort of prominent naturalists. Thompson's first scientific paper The Birds of the Copeland Islands (two islands just off the coast of Belfast Lough) was published in 1827 shortly after his joining the then prominent and influential Belfast Natural History Society. Seemingly reliant on family resources and without academic or institutional connections, he gave himself over entirely to natural history. Thompson contributed the most up-to-date information on the birds of Ireland to Selbys The Magazine of Zoology and Botany, The Annals of Natural History, The Magazine of Natural History, and the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. The first true list of Ireland's birds was prepared for the 1840 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Glasgow. Other work (mostly though not entirely on birds) was published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and the Lon...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=236242We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Irish Ornithologists: William Thompson, William Edwin Brooks, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Lesley Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald. To get started finding Irish Ornithologists: William Thompson, William Edwin Brooks, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Lesley Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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36
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Release
2010
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1157250416
Irish Ornithologists: William Thompson, William Edwin Brooks, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Lesley Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald
Description: Chapters: William Thompson, William Edwin Brooks, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Lesley Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald, Richard Mancliffe Barrington, Killian Mullarney, Richard J. Ussher, Charles Joseph Patten, Robert Warren, John David Digues La Touche. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Thompson (December 2, 1805 February 17, 1852) was an Irish naturalist celebrated for his founding studies of the Natural History of Ireland. He was especially interested in ornithology and marine biology. Born in Belfast, Ireland, the eldest son of a linen merchant, Thompson attended the newly formed Royal Belfast Academical Institution in the increasingly prosperous and vital maritime city of Belfast. Founded by, amongst others, John Templeton a close friend of fellow-botanist Sir Joseph Banks, the school had a strong natural history section and was to produce a cohort of prominent naturalists. Thompson's first scientific paper The Birds of the Copeland Islands (two islands just off the coast of Belfast Lough) was published in 1827 shortly after his joining the then prominent and influential Belfast Natural History Society. Seemingly reliant on family resources and without academic or institutional connections, he gave himself over entirely to natural history. Thompson contributed the most up-to-date information on the birds of Ireland to Selbys The Magazine of Zoology and Botany, The Annals of Natural History, The Magazine of Natural History, and the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. The first true list of Ireland's birds was prepared for the 1840 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Glasgow. Other work (mostly though not entirely on birds) was published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and the Lon...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=236242We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Irish Ornithologists: William Thompson, William Edwin Brooks, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Lesley Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald. To get started finding Irish Ornithologists: William Thompson, William Edwin Brooks, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Lesley Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.