History Of British Animals Exhibiting The Descriptive Characters And Systematical Arrangement

by John Fleming

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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.

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