Details - Testimonials for the 1885 edition of J.G. Wood's Our living world

Testimonials for the 1885 edition of J.G. Wood's Our living world

Title

Testimonials for the 1885 edition of J.G. Wood's Our living world

Title Variants

Alternative: Our living world

Alternative: Our living world, folder C

By

Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889 , Our living world
Hess, Selmar, 1847-1917 , publisher
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 , contributor
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 , contributor
Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899 , contributor
Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 , contributor
Putnam, F. W. 1839-1915 , contributor
Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring), 1839-1905 , contributor
Turner, Jane Wadden, 1818-1896 , contributor

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

[New York?] [Selmar Hess?] [1885]

Notes

Title devised by cataloger

Testimonials were apparently issued by the publisher of Wood's 1885 edition of Our living world, Selmar Hess of New York City

The sheets are printed on the recto side only, and were produced as facsimiles, probably through a lithographic process

The sheets are numbered as 7, 8 and 9. It has not been determined whether additional sheets were created for this set

Sheet 7 contains testimonials by J.A. Turner [presumably Jane Wadden Turner], librarian of the Smithsonian Institution, dated April 4, 1885, and by professor Agassiz, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., dated April 18, 1885; sheet 8 contains testimonials from professor Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian Institution, dated April 2, 1885, and by "the eminent ornithologist professor Coues," dated April 3, 1885; and sheet 9 contains testimonials from professor Ridgway of the Smithsonian Institution, dated April 1, 1885, from F.W. Putnam, the Massachusetts Fish Commissioner, Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, and from A.S. Packard, Jr., MD., Ph.D., professor of zoology and geology at the University of Providence, Rhode Island and editor of the 'American naturalist,' dated April 10, 1885