Mammalogy
Subtitle: natural history of mammiferous animals. : Second-book [sic] of natural history, prepared for the use of schools and colleges
By: by W.S.W. Ruschenberger, M.D., surgeon in the U.S. Navy; Fellow of the College of Physicians, ; Hon. Member of the Philadelphia Medical Society; Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; etc., etc. ; From the text of Milne Edwards, and Achille Comte: professors of natural history in the colleges of Henri IV, and Charlemagne. ; With plates
Contributors: Milne-Edwards, H. (Henri), 1800-1885; Comte, Achille, 1802-1866; Neagle, James, 1760?-1822; Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 1816-1847; Thomas, George; Turner & Fisher
Series: Ruschenberger's series
Publisher: Turner & Fisher: publishers, 15 North Sixth Street; and no. 52 Chatham Street, New York.
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Zoology; Mammals; Human skin color
Notes: Paragraphs numbered. Includes questions for study.

"The plates were engraved by Mr. G. Thomas, (No. 37 South Third Street, Philadelphia.) The frontispiece is a faithful copy, though reduced in size, of a portrait of Ongpatonga, (Big Elk,) Chief of the Omawhaws, drawn for Morton's Crania Americana, by M.S. Weaver from the original painting by J. Neagle. For a lithographic copy of this drawing, I am indebted to my friend, Professor S.G. Morton."--translator's preface, p. [iii], dated at Philadelphia, December, 1841.

Series statement transposed from head of title page.

Copyright 1841 by W.S.W. Ruschenberger.

Includes publisher's advertisements, [12] p. at beginning.

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