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Centipedes of the British Isles Pisces CD-book edition

By: EH Eason(Author)
CD book for Windows and Mac, with fully searchable text and navigation
Manufacturer: Pisces Conservation
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Eason's classic 'Wayside & Woodlands' work on centipedes, now available again as a Pisces CD-book
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Eason's Wayside & Woodlands classic now available again as a Pisces CD-book.

From the publisher's announcement:

"E.H. Eason's work was published in 1964 and has long been out of print. Though some of the nomenclature has since changed, the original species descriptions, illustrations and details of distribution remain invaluable.

Pisces Conservation are pleased to release Centipedes in electronic form, with the kind permission of the family of E.H. Eason. It is now available on CD, for Windows PCs and Macs, with fully searchable text and hyperlinks for ease of navigation. The quality of the reproduction of illustrations and text is excellent. The book is in Adobe Acrobat pdf format (with free Reader software supplied), allowing high-quality printing of the text and plates."
 

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By: EH Eason(Author)
CD book for Windows and Mac, with fully searchable text and navigation
Manufacturer: Pisces Conservation
NHBS
Eason's classic 'Wayside & Woodlands' work on centipedes, now available again as a Pisces CD-book
Media reviews

"Like Southwood and Leston's Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles Eason's Centipedes of the British Isles is one of those classic works that is practically unobtainable in the modern world. After reading it for the first time in 1988 I looked for it on many occasions over the next ten years in various natural history bookstores in England and Wales and never found a single copy for sale. It is a book I would still love to own a paper copy of, but while that seems unlikely to come about, now, thanks to Pisces Conservation, I can at least have it available for research in the form of their recently published CD version.

During the last years of the last century, there were rumours that a new version of Eason's book was being released, but little seems to have actually happened. Eason's book was originally published in 1964. It is not surprising then that much new knowledge has been gained since then, however outside of the journals in a University library this is still unobtainable, and Eason's well-written book is the best that is available. Having said that, for those actually involved in survey work in the UK, the Provisional Atlas of the Centipedes of the British Isles by A.D. Barber and A.N. New published in 1999 will be a necessary addendum as we now know there are 41 and not 32 species in the UK as Eason believed, making his keys a little less useful than they once were.

Despite its datedness, this book is still an extremely good introduction to the Chilopoda as it contains much fascinating and useful information. It consists of an introduction to the group followed by four chapters on the orders Geophilomorpha, Scolopendromorpha, Lithobiomorpha and Scutigeromorpha, an appendix on collecting and preserving techniques, a glossary and a variety of well-drawn plates.

For the modern computer world, a CD version of a book like this is an excellent option, particularly for the images, which a reproduced well here. It is cheap and good value for money, an undoubtedly useful resource for every zoology student, naturalist and or teacher in the UK"
– Gorden Ramel

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