Cambridge, Mass: Privately printed; Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1932. Limited Edition. A Very Good Soft cover.

A memorial to Outram Bangs, 24 cm [6] pages; 4 pages of text. A limited edition of an unstated number only found in only 7 institutions. [OCLC] String tied folded handmade brown sheet to form wraps. Carefully handled, no flaws to note.

Very Good / No Dust Jacket As Issued. Item #014771

Outram Bangs (1863-1932) was an American zoologist, curator of Mammals at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1900. He gained an international reputation in ornithology. He is responsible for making Harvard's collection world-class.

He visited Jamaica in 1906 and collected over 100 birds there, but his trip was cut short by dengue fever. His collection of over 10,000 mammalian skins and skulls, including over 100 type specimens, was presented to Harvard College in 1899.

In 1908 his collection of over 24,000 bird skins was presented to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and he went on to increase it. In 1925 he went to Europe, visiting museums and ornithologists and arranging scientific exchanges. He wrote over 70 books and articles, 55 of them on mammals.

Thomas Barbour was an American herpetologist. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [wiki]

Ref: Bird Observer 311, V25 No6 1977; Beolens

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