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Historical Bibliography Updated: February 10, 2020

A catalogue of the animals of North America: Containing, an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceous and testaceous animals ... to which are added short directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting, all kinds of natural history curiosities.

Publication Details

London: B. White, 1771 CE.

Largely based on specimens he had access to from the British collections of Thomas Pennant and Anna Blackburne, this was Forster's attempt to systemize on the Linnean model the fragmented field of natural history studies from the Americas. It includes important directions for collecting and preserving specimens. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#11615
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/13815
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLa-catalogue-of-the-animals-of-north-america-containing-an-enumeration-of-the-known-quadrupeds-birds-reptiles-fish-insects-crustaceous-and-testaceous-animals-to-which-are-added-short-directions-for-collecting-preserving-and-transporting-all-kinds-of-natural-history-curiosities

Geographic Context

Publication place: London