Selected works by eighteenth-century naturalists and travellers.
By: Introd. by Keir B. Sterling.
Contributors: Bartram, John, 1699-1777.; Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798.; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815.
Series: Natural sciences in America
Publisher: Arno Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: Natural history -- North America -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: A collection of reprints.
Table of contents: title: Bartram, J. Observations on the inhabitants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matters worthy of notice.; title: Forster, J. R. A catalogue of the animals of North America, containing an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceous, and testaceous animals.; title: Forster, J. R. Account of several quadrupeds from Hudson's Bay.; title: Forster, J. R. An account of the birds sent from Hudson's Bay, with observations relative to their natural history, and Latin descriptions of some of the most uncommon.; title: Barton, B. S. Fragments of the natural history of Pennsylvania.