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Living fossils / Maurice Burton ; with 83 drawings by Jane Burton.
- Title
- Living fossils / Maurice Burton ; with 83 drawings by Jane Burton.
- Author
- Burton, Maurice, 1898-1992
- Publication
- London ; New York : Thames and Hudson, ©1954.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | QL45.B94 1954 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 282 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- Ancient forms of animal life which have survived, even though other members of their class or order are extinct. Includes egg-laying mammals, marsupials, certain arthropods, flightless land-dwelling birds, primitive insects, and the coelacanth.
- Series Statement
- The past in the present
- Uniform Title
- Past in the present.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work
- Note
- "Chapter 2: New Zealand relics, deals with tuatara and Chapter 6, Peripatus, worm-insect, illustrates New Zealand species"--Bagnall.
- Includes index.
- Indexed In (note)
- Bagnall
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- LCCN
- 54011515
- OCLC
- 1006656
- SCSB-10016958
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library