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Reise-Bilder : Bilder aus Texas / von Benno Matthes.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection F391 .M43 1861
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matthes, Benno, 1825-1911.
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Zoology.
- Texas.
- Botany--Texas.
- Botany.
- Zoology--Texas.
- Texas--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 104 pages ; 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Bilder aus Texas
- Place of Publication:
- Dresden : Buchhandlung von H.J. Zeh, 1861.
- Notes:
- Worked as doctor and collector of natural history objects (for the museum in Dresden). Moved to America in 1850/51 and to Texas in 1853. Later became land owner there. Zoological publications on amphibians and reptiles. He returned again to Germany to take his Ph.D. degree, probably at Halle, in 1860. He included a treatise on Texas, "Bilder aus Texas," in Reisebilder (Dresden, 1861), about the effects of drought on flora and fauna and incidents regarding Indians and blacks.
- OCLC:
- 166489111
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