Fleming, John

History of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, mollusca, and radiata of the United Kingdom ... Second edition

London: Duncan and Malcolm, 1842. 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 565, [3]; partially unopened; full brown publisher's cloth, gilt title on spine; spine stained and sunned, upper joint starting, good and sound. John Fleming (1785-1857) was a Scottish Free Church minister, naturalist, zoologist and geologist. He named and described a number of species of mollusks. During his life he tried to reconcile theology with science. Fleming Fjord in Greenland was named after him. Item #59946

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