Author: Alcock, A.
Title: A naturalist in Indian seas. Four years with the Royal Indian marine survey ship "Investigator".
Description: London, John Murray, 1902. Thick 8vo (23.0 x 16.0 cm). xxiv, 98 fine illustrations on unnumbered plates, large, folding map. Original pictorial cloth. = A good read, well-illustrated (mainly showing marine life obtained by dredgings), and including a tissue-guarded heliogravure of the research ship. In the rear a very useful list of stations, and of papers describing material collected during the cruises. Uncut. Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front free endpaper and title. Binding worn at joints; some spotting to the first and last few leaves and map, otherwise good.

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