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Edité par Collins. New Naturalist Series. 1975., 1975
ISBN 10 : 0002195550ISBN 13 : 9780002195553
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
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(Hardcover, 1975). (1957) 1975 5th edn reprint. 8vo (150 x 222mm). Pxiv,237. Colour & b/w photograph plates, b/w line illustrations, maps, and bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. Small tape-mark to p5 but very good in price-clipped dust-wrapper. Detailed discussion of the soil and what lives in and on it. This book "gets inside this strange world and analyses its structure and how it has developed; the ciculation of water and gases which give the soil an atmosphere and a succession of climates quite different from those of the air above. It deals with the varied forms of life made possible or impossible by the varied conditions and so to a concept of the soil providing habitats of differing and frequently contrasted characters." Useful and interesting. .
Edité par Collins New Naturalist Series. London. 1975., 1975
ISBN 10 : 0002130289ISBN 13 : 9780002130288
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
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Etat : New. (Hardcover, 1975). (1948) 1975 4th edition. 8vo (138 x 206mm). Ppxv,158. Colour frontispiece, b/w photographs, maps. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. Cloth slightly stained, owner's name else good-plus in used, price-clipped dust-wrapper with original publisher's plastic sleeve. This is the first of the New Naturalist Monographs, and was perhaps the first detailed account of the life of the badger based on meticulous and exhaustive field research. Ernest Neal "has done, in fact, an honest job of natural history observation and deduction in the best English tradition. In the Editors' belief, 'this Monograph is a notable contribution to the biology of a noble animal which, as a member of the British fauna, has had certainly too little regard and perhaps too little respect'." Chapters include:- The badger at home; General features; Classification and distribution; Getting to know the animals; The food of badgers; General behaviour; Hibernation; The musk-glands and their uses; Reproductive cycle and associated habits; Development; The annual cycle of behaviour; Badger sets and life underground; The badger of folk-lore and fable; Photographing the badger. Appendices give notes on the author's fieldwork, data on time of emergence from sets and a note on Allelomorphs. .
Edité par Collins. New Naturalist Series. 1975., 1974
ISBN 10 : 0002190818ISBN 13 : 9780002190817
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Livre
Etat : New. (Hardcover, 1974). (1974) 1975 reprint. 8vo (151 x 223mm). Pp256. B/w plates, illustrations, maps & bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. Unobtrusively bumped else clean good-plus copy in slightly spine-faded dust-wrapper. Though "man-made, hedges are in effect long thin strips of woodland, a network across Britain of hidden pathways and refuge for much of our native wildlife. Secrecy and cover: hence surely the appeal of hedges even for children. But the interest of hedges lies also in their history, which is also that of our post-Bronze Age landscape and rural society, and in their central importance to the ecology of the British countryside." The history of the hedge as commentary on the history of Britain and its peoples. Chapters include: History - what is a hedge, early hedges; Enclosure by act and award; The recent landscape; The present position; Flora - the flora; dating a hedge; The origin and development of the shrub flora; Some hedgerow plants; Fauna - birds; mammals; Amphibia and reptiles; Invertebrates; The farmer's hedge - shelter; Pests and beneficial insects; Management; Costs. Past, present and future. As usual with the New Naturalist series, essential reading. .
Edité par Collins. New Naturalist Series. 1975., 1975
ISBN 10 : 0002195526ISBN 13 : 9780002195522
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
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(Hardcover, 1975). (1954) 1970's reprint. 8vo (150 x 223mm). Ppxiv,208,ad. Colour frontispiece, b/w photograph plates, b/w line illustrations, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly spine-faded dust-wrapper. A detailed account of the biology, behaviour and habits of the honeybee. Chapters include: The origin of the honeybee, and evolution of the relationship between bees and flowers; The honeybees and their distribution today; The evolution of social amongst bees; The origin of the members of the colony; On the survival of colonies that have lost their queens; The life of a queen - mating, egg-laying behaviour, etc; Division of labour amongst the workers of a colony; Recognition by a colony of honeybees of the presence of its queen; Clustering and the maintenance of colony cohesion; The world of the worker honeybee; Bee stings and bee venom; Colony odour and defence; Colony reproduction or swarming; The food of the honeybee; Foraging behaviour; Direction finding and communication; Epilogue. .