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[Miscellaneous reprints, 1840-1851] / by Henry C. Lea.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fossils--United States.
- Fossils.
- Chemistry, Inorganic.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Mollusks.
- United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea.
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (former owner) (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 16 items ; 23-27 cm
- Arrangement:
- Items are arranged chronologically.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States], [publisher not identified], [1841-1851]
- Summary:
- Collection of articles written by Henry Charles Lea on various scientific and literary subjects and published between 1841 and 1851 in different magazines. The articles are arranged chronologically and they are bound together in a vol. measuring 28 cm. in height.
- Contents:
- Description of some new species of fossil shells, from the Eocene, at Claiborne, Alabama (1841)
- Description of eight new species of shells native to the United States (1841)
- Remarks upon an examination of the peroxide of manganese (1842)
- Greek epitaphs and inscriptions (1843)
- Abstract of a paper read before the American Philosophical Society, May 29th, 1843, entitled, "Description of some new Fossil Shells, from the Tertiary of Petersburg, Virginia" (1843)
- Quarles' Divine fancies (1844)
- Descriptions of some new species of marine shells, inhabiting the coast of the United States (1844)
- Tennyson's poems (1844)
- Leigh Hunt's Poems (1844)
- Remarks on various late poets (1844-1846)
- The Greek symposium, and its materials (1845)
- Leigh Hunt's Imagination and fancy (1845)
- Irish ballads (1846)
- Festus, a poem by P.J. Bailey (1846)
- Ménage's Poems (1846)
- Catalogue of the tertiary testacea of the United States (1848)
- Description of a new genus of the family Melaniana and of many new species of the genus Melania (1851).
- Local Notes:
- Lea Library copy has the bookplate of Henry Charles Lea.
- OCLC:
- 455843714
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