This volume had its origin in a post-prandial discourse delivered in 1926 before the "Sette of Odd Volumes", and was intended to see the light as one of the Opuscula issued by that Society by and to its members. In the process of preparing that discourse, the author made discovery of a vast number of references to the subject in the works of early zoologists, botanists and thaumatogenists, constituting a veritable literature of the subject, and as the result, the present compilation ensued. Illustrated.
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IT is always a fragment of interesting, if useless, information to the layman to be told that the water-fleas in his bird-basin, and the Barnacles which, according as they are stalked or sessile, arouse his wonder or his wrath, are 'a kind of lobster'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Albertus Magnus, Sir Ray Lankester, Fabius Colonna, Max Muller, Nova Zembla, Saxo Grammaticus, Sir Robert Moray, Vincent of Beauvais, Aeneas Sylvius, Giraldus Cambrensis, Claude Duret, Olaus Magnus, Rabbi Tam, Sebastian Munster, Soland Geese, Tancred Robinson, Bass Rock, Jacobus Barreliero, Jacques de Vitry, John Gerard, Ortus Sanitatis, Turberville Needham New!
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IT is always a fragment of interesting, if useless, information to the layman to be told that the water-fleas in his bird-basin, and the Barnacles which, according as they are stalked or sessile, arouse his wonder or his wrath, are 'a kind of lobster'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
concha anatifera, vide post, rotten wood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Albertus Magnus, Sir Ray Lankester, Fabius Colonna, Max Muller, Nova Zembla, Saxo Grammaticus, Sir Robert Moray, Vincent of Beauvais, Aeneas Sylvius, Giraldus Cambrensis, Claude Duret, Olaus Magnus, Rabbi Tam, Sebastian Munster, Soland Geese, Tancred Robinson, Bass Rock, Jacobus Barreliero, Jacques de Vitry, John Gerard, Ortus Sanitatis, Turberville Needham New!
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- Diversions of a Naturalist (Essay index reprint series) by Edwin Ray Lankester in Front Matter, page 109, and Back Matter
- The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee in Back Matter
- An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis, III Stevenson in Back Matter
- The Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights (Signet classics) by Richard F. Burton in Back Matter
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- The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes by Chuck Zerby on page 111, page 112, and page 113
- Infelicities: Representations of the Exotic by Peter Mason in Back Matter
- "le ver, le demon et la vierge ; les theories medievales de la generation extraordinaire" by Maaike Van Der Lugt in Back Matter
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