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
Hess, Selmar, 1847-1917
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899
Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929
Putnam, F. W. 1839-1915
Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring), 1839-1905
Turner, Jane Wadden, 1818-1896

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

Subjects

(John George), , 1827-1889 , Our living world , Wood, J. G

Call Number

QL50 .W878 1885

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.168479
OCLC: 17800702