Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 38

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1911. Ex-Library. Near-Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 677 p. Illustrated. Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution, then known as the United States National Museum. Includes extensive illustrated articles on a variety of flora and fauna from around the globe, including fresh water spongers, mollusks, toadfishes, fossil plants, earwigs, moths, Russian souvenirs, Australian & European crinoids, birds of Korea, birds collected by U S Fisheries steamer Albatross, North American bees, hymenoptera, arenaceous Foraminifera from the Philippines, land shells of Peru, shells of the genus Conus, Mexican lepidoptera, monkeys, fresh-water Amphipod from Virginia, chub-mackerals, Wyoming crocodiles, geometrid moths, fossil turtles, deep-water Sculpin, Gold-eye, Labrador fishes, Chinese carnivores, Philippine mammals, Egyptian sand-barites, stalk-eyed crusteacea, parasitic isopods, tenthredinoidea of Canada, Copepoda and Cladocer of Woods Hole, Ostracoda, flounders, batrachians and reptiles, Ichneumon flies, marine amphipods, fishes of Cameron, Louisiana, and more. Only indication of ex-library status is bookplate from the Sturgis Library in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Near fine..