Observations in Natural History
With an Introduction on Habits of Observing, as Connected with the Study of that Science

This 1846 publication, based on two decades of observation in eastern England, covers quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects and molluscs.

Leonard Jenyns (Author)

9781108069861, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 July 2014

462 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 kg

Although devoted to his parish, Leonard Jenyns (1800–93) combined his clerical duties with keen research into natural history. Notably, he was offered the place on the Beagle that later went to Charles Darwin. His numerous works include A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals (1835) and Observations in Meteorology (1858), both of which are reissued in this series. First published in 1846, the present work was originally intended as a companion volume to Gilbert White's acclaimed Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789), which Jenyns had copied out as a student at Eton. The product of two decades of meticulous observation of Jenyns' surroundings in eastern England, the text includes journal entries with careful records on a wide variety of wildlife, including quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects and molluscs. Also featuring a detailed calendar of periodic phenomena, this work illuminates the rhythms and quirks of the natural world in England.

Preface
Introduction
Observations on quadrupeds
Observations on birds
Notes on particular species of birds
Observations on reptiles
Observations on fishes
Observations on insects
Observations on worms
Observations on mollusks
Remarks on the importance of registers of periodic phenomena in natural history
Calendar of periodic phenomena in natural history
Alphabetical arrangement of the phenomena in the foregoing calendar
General index.

Subject Areas: Zoology & animal sciences [PSV]