Discovery Reports
Volume XVI – Parts 1-4 – Complete Set in five volumes
Cambridge University Press, 1933, First Edition. Large 4to (31.6cm x 24cm). 446 pp., 14 full page plates. Publisher’s sea foam green wraps. All reports loosely inserted in Publisher’s dark green cloth boards, bright gilt letter with Discovery icon on front board – same on spine. Boards in Near Fine Condition, individual reports also in Near Fine Condition with prior owner’s signature on front cover. These reports were to be bound in the publisher’s boards, but they were never bound in. All reports are in near fine condition with original covers and spines. The publisher’s hard covers now serve as an open folio casing the complete set of reports.
Contents:
• Title Page and List of Contents. [vi] pp.
• Coast Fishes Part II: The Patagonian Region. 1-150pp, Numerous diagrams of fish in text, 5 full page plates with titled tissue guards. By J.R. Norman
• The Plankton Diatoms of the Southern Seas. 151-364pp., Index, References, 8 full page plates with titled tissue guards. By N. Ingram Hendey, F.L.S., R.R.M.S.
• The Seasonal Circulation of the Antarctic Macroplankton. 365-412pp., 1 map, several diagrams and tables in text. By N.A. Mackintosh, D.Sc.
• Rhizosolenia Curvata Zacharias, an Indicator Species in the Southern Ocean. 413-446pp., several maps, charts and tables in text, 1 full page plate with titled tissue guard.By T. John Hart, D.Sc.
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