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Fishes
There 3 books available for adoption.
Aquatilium Animalium HistoriaeBuild and Access the Collection - $9,500 Ippolito Salviani's book on aquatic animals is renowned as one of the three 16th century works that established ichthyology as a modern science; SIL holds the other two and this completes the trio. A professor of medicine at the University of Rome and physician to several Popes, Salviani collected...Read More |
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Icones Piscium : Indicem SystematicumBuild and Access the Collection - $550 Frederik Christian Kielsen (1774-1850), a Danish naturalist and teacher, published his Icones in six separate parts: fishes, mammals, insects, invertebrates, birds, and amphibians. Each has a brief text providing a Linnaean systematic classification followed by (as the title...Read More |
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Tropical Fishes of the East IndiesBuild and Access the Collection - $1,000 Samuel Fallours was working for the Dutch East India Company in the early 1700s on the island of Ambon (part of present day Indonesia) as a clergyman’s assistant. Having an artistic talent, he made drawings of local fish, crustaceans, and other marine organisms from the Indian Ocean. The...Read More |