Tales from Nature's Wonderlands

E-376. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Charles A Scribners, New York. 1924. 235 pgs. Illustrated. Signed and inscribed by William Hornaday on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine lightly tanned and sunned). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine lightly sunned and faded). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. William Temple Hornaday, Sc. D. Was an American zoologist, conservationist, taxidermist, and author. He served as the first director of the New York Zoological Park, known today as the Bronx Zoo, and he was a pioneer in the early wildlife conservation movement in the United States. After serving as a taxidermist at Henry Augustus Ward's Natural Science Establishment in Rochester New York, he spent 1.5 years, 1877–1878 in India and Ceylon collecting specimens. In May 1878 he reached southeast Asia and traveled in Malaya and Sarawak in Borneo. His travels inspired his first publication, Two Years in the Jungle (1885). In 1882 he was appointed chief taxidermist of the United States National Museum, a post he held until his resignation in 1890. Hornaday's advocacy is credited with preserving the American bison from extinction. At the end of the nineteenth century, he began to plan, with Theodore Roosevelt's support, a society for the protection of the bison. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .