Text-book of paleontology edited by Charles R. Eastman ; adapted from the German of Karl A. von Zittel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zittel, Karl Alfred von, 1839-1904.

Contributor:

Eastman, Charles Rochester, 1868-1918.

Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944.

Schlosser, Max.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Standardized Title:

Grundzüge der Palaeontologie. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Paleontology--Textbooks.

Paleontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 v.) : ill.

Edition:

2nd ed., rev. and enl. / by the editor in collaboration with ... R.S. Bassler ... [et al.].

Place of Publication:

London : Macmillan, 1913-1932.

Language Note:

Author's preface in German.

Contents:

v. 1. [Invertebrates]. 1913 (x, 839 p.)

v. 2. [Vertebrates except for Mammalia]. 1932 (xvii, 464 p.)

v. 3. Mammalia. 1925 (viii, 316 p.).

Notes:

Revised translation of: Grundzüge der Palaeontologie (Palaeozoologie). Munchen : Oldenbourg, 1895.

The 1st English ed. consisted of 2 vols. only (published 1900-1902) and lacked the mammals section. Vol. 3 (published in 1925) lacks the "2nd ed." statement but is generally considered to be part of this 2nd ed. set, as v. 1 was published in 1913 and v. 2 in 1932.

Vol. 2 called: Second English edition, revised, with additions, by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward. Vol. 3 revised by Max Schlosser; translated under the direction of Charles R. Eastman by Lucy P. Bush and Marguerite L. Engler; translation revised, with additions, by Sir A. Smith Woodward.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

646150729