Since you obviously don't "need" such out of date books and just as
obviously don't have space to house such books, I hereby offer to take them
off of your hands. It's not that I "need" or "want" them, I am just trying
to be helpful!
Rob Denkhaus
Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
"El muerto a la sepultura, el vivo a la travesura"
"The dead to burial, the living to mischief"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Scharpf
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:55 PM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- Fishes of North and Middle America
>
>
> > As I was perusing some boxes of old books that I had not
> seen in a while,
> > I came across my 4 volume set of "The Fishes of North &
> Middle America" by
> > Jordan and Evermann published 1896 though 1900. I was
> wondering if anyone
> > could shed some light as to the highlights of this
> reference. It is really
> > kind of neat and the drawing are very good. Your comments
> are greatly
> > appreciated. Thanks.
>
> This is what I wrote in the Winter 96/97 American Currents:
>
> One of the earliest continent-wide surveys is also the most
> staggering --
> The Fishes of North and Middle America by David Starr Jordan
> and Barton
> Warren Evermann (1896-1900, Bulletin of the United States
> National Museum
> No. 47, 4 vols., ccv + 3,331 p. + 192 black-and-white plates;
> reprinted by
> T.F.H. Publications in 1963, hardcover). The scope of this
> work is truly
> epic: descriptions of 3,263 freshwater, estaurine and coastal
> marine fishes;
> over 3,500 pages of densely-packed pre-computer 8-point type; and 958
> marvelously detailed engravings. To read it is to enter a
> golden age of
> purely descriptive biology, when 19th-century naturalists
> ventured forth,
> Lewis-and-Clark-like, to collect, pickle, and describe every
> living organism
> they saw. Who cares if they were naming the same fish twice,
> thrice, four
> times over? It was Manifest Destiny, biology style. The
> classification and
> nomenclature is now woefully out-of-date, but the descriptive
> material is
> timeless. A veritable Gray's Anatomy of American ichthyology.
>
>
> Chris Scharpf
> Baltimore
>
>
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