Author: Bowers, G. M. (Ed.)
Title: Investigations of the aquatic resources and fisheries of Porto Rico by the United States Fish Commission Steamer Fish Hawk in 1899. Second Part.
Description: Washington, DC, United States Fish Commission, 1902. 4to. viii, 431 pp., 72 plates (heliotypes, photographs, two fine chromolithographs of crabs), numerous text figures. Contemporary full green, pebbled and embossed cloth. Gilt title on the spine. = This is part 2, with the papers on invertebrates, except the Mollusca. Includes an index of all species dealt with. The majority is formed by papers on crustaceans. Included are the Brachyura and Macrura, Anomura, Stomatopoda, Isopoda, and Cirripedia. Further included are nemerteans, Echinodermata, Alcyonaria, stony corals, sponges, etc. Part I, not present, deals with general observations on the fisheries, the fishes, and the molluscs. Pictorial bookplate of the Allen Hancock Foundation on the front pastedown; an occassional weak blindstamp. Binding rather worn, first blank and title detached, frayed at edges. Otherwise a very good copy.

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