Author: Brady, G. S. and A. M. Norman
Title: A monograph of the marine and freshwater Ostracoda of the North Atlantic and of North-Western Europe. Section I. Podocopa.
Description: Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, 1889. 4to (27.3 x 22.0 cm). 208 pp.; 16 lithographed plates [numbered VIII-XXIII], with explanatory text leaves. Disbound. = A beautifully illustrated monograph by the British zoologist and professor of natural history at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, George Stewardson Brady (1832-1921). He was one of the foremost ostracod and copepod specialists of the late 19th century. Co-author, the British invertebrate zoologist an clergyman Alfred Merle Norman (1831-1918), "...is known for publishing major work on Protozoa, Porifera, Coelenterata, Mollusca, Crustacea, Echinodermata, and other invertebrates. The publication Museum Normanianum summarised his collection of 11,086 species, which was acquired by the Natural History Museum, London. They were purchased in four instalments between 1898 and 1911 by the Museum. Norman also presented many specimens to the Museum. ... Norman's library, which incorporated John Gwyn Jeffreys' library on molluscs, is now in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge" (Wikipedia). Published in the society's Transactions Volume X (= 10). Unmarked. Paper a bit cocked at the spine, from being removed from a bound copy; otherwise a very good, clean copy of this rare work.

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