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British Mammals

Monograph Out of Print
Series: New Naturalist Series Volume: 21
By: L Harrison Matthews(Author)
424 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
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The ordinary amateur naturalist is bound to be astonished at the remarkable discoveries about the distribution, life history and habits of British mammals collected here
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  • British Mammals ISBN: 9780007308163 Hardback facsimile Jul 2009 Out of Print #233805
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Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. British Mammals was first published in 1952.

The study of Britain's mammals during the present century has been wide and intensive. On the whole it has been conducted by workers who are general naturalists, ecologists, anatomists, physiologists but not purely mammalogists. Dr. Matthews himself is a general naturalist of wide experience and distinction, but here he has done what British natural history has wanted for half a century he has written a synthesis of our knowledge of mammals which treats them as mammals.

And what an exciting synthesis it is! The ordinary amateur naturalist is bound to be astonished at the remarkable discoveries about the distribution, life history and habits of our British mammals that Dr. Matthews has collected in his book. These advances are shown, perhaps, most clearly in the case of the bats. There has been a revolution in our knowledge of the breeding cycle of these interesting creatures, with its curious problems of delayed fertilisation and delayed implantation; and the discovery of the method by which bats navigate in the dark by means of echo-sounding, here given its most lucid exposition in an English publication, is quite remarkable.

Undoubtedly, British Mammals will stimulate a revival of British mammalogy. The subject, which has had up to now a largely hidden following, has been handicapped by the lack of a periodical devoted to mammals, and by the lack of any recent synthetical book. For instance, the only important systematic treatise on the British mammals of the present century was left unfinished nearly thirty years ago.

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"The author has set out to make a digest of the vast quantity of recent research. It would be hard to overstate how well he has succeeded."
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"Clear and lucid [...] the non-scientific reader can understand it without difficulty. No naturalist in Britain today can afford to be without this volume."
The Spectator

"The wealth and variety of information in a few pages is characteristic of the entire book, and the whole is presented in an engaging style, scientific and unsentimental, but human."
New Statesman

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Monograph Out of Print
Series: New Naturalist Series Volume: 21
By: L Harrison Matthews(Author)
424 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
NHBS
The ordinary amateur naturalist is bound to be astonished at the remarkable discoveries about the distribution, life history and habits of British mammals collected here
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