Author: CHILTON, CHARLES.
Title: A Collection of 61 Biological - Zoological scholarly offprints by Charles Chilton.
Description: New Zealand. 1906-1926. 1926, 1st Edition. Hardcover. |A good portion of Charles Chilton's life work, gathered in one book. 61 collected offprints from the pioneering New Zealand zoologist - biologist. Collected by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, USA in their early days and bound in one custom book, that remained in their collection until recently, and has their light stamps. About half of the estimated 130 articles Chilton wrote in his interesting life, several stamped 'with the author's complements.' Illustrated plates in some. The topics dealing with Crustacea, Gammarid, Stomatopoda, Elasmopus, Preatoicus, Amphipoda, Isopoda, etc. Published from 1906-1926 and printed in: Notes from the Leyden Museum, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (one of which is Chilton's Presidential Address of 1914), Records of the Canterbury Museum, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum, Linnean Society's Journal, The Journal of Zoological Research, Journal of Proceedings of the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, Royal Society of Tasmania Papers and Proceedings, The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, Philippine Journal of Science, Records of the Indian Museum, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Ent. Society, Commonwealth of Australia Department of Trade and Customs, Royal Society of South Australia, Records of the Canterbury Museum, Royal Society of South Australia, and the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural. Circa 1930s buckram binding is sturdy and unworn, with a hand-typed table of contents bound in. This is, of course a unique collection, impossible to duplicate. Very Good.

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