Abstract
THIS is a new part of an encyclopaedic work, little known as yet in Great Britain, which deals well and thoroughly with the commercial side of natural history. There is much worth knowing about beast and bird beyond the ken of even the most learned zoologist. The trapper, the fur-trader and the plumassier, the sponge-merchant and the dealer in shells, the pearl-fisher and the ivory-trader, the druggist with his fats and waxes, glues, isinglass, musk, civet, ambergris and galls, all these, not to speak of the men in Leadenhall Market or Billingsgate, are highly skilled naturalists in their own peculiar way and have a fine field of learning and observation of their own.
Die Rohstoffe des Tierreichs
Herausgegeben von Ferdinand Pax Walther Arndt. Lieferung 13. Kapitel 9: Schwämme. Von W. Arndt. Pp. 1577–2000. (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1937). 45 gold marks.
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T., D. Die Rohstoffe des Tierreichs. Nature 142, 812 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142812a0
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