Recent Arrivals from Breck Bartholomew Natural History Books

Blair, W. Frank, Arthur C. Hulse and Michael A. Mares. 1976. Origins and affinities of vertebrates of the North American Sonoran Desert and the Monte Desert of Northwestern Argentina. Journal of Biogeography. 3: 1-18.

Brattstrom, Bayard H. 1953. The amphibians and reptiles from Rancho la Brea. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 11 (14): 365-392.

Evans, Llewellyn Thomas. 1938. Cuban Field Studies on Territoriality of the lizard, Anolis sagrei. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 25 (1): 97-125

Ruthven, Alexander G. 1915. An interpretation of the distribution of the Reptiles in Maggie Basin, Nevada. Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. 47: 948-952.

Tinkle, Donald W. 1972. The role of environment in evolution of life history differences within and between lizard species. Pp. 77-100. In: R. T. Allen and F. C. James (eds.) A Symposium on Ecosystematics: University of Arkansas Museum Occasional Papers.

Werth, Robert J. 1973. Lizard Ecology: Evidence of Competition. Kansas Academy of Science. 75 (4): 283-300.

Wake, David B. and James F. Lynch. 1976. The distribution, ecology, and evolutionary history of plethodontid salamanders in Tropical America. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Bulletin. (25): 1-65.

Walters, Robert E. and Ella Sorenson (eds.) 1983. Utah Bird Distribution: Latilong Study. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Salt Lake City, xx, 97 p., folding map.

In Chinese. Cover boards splitting. Some moisture damage to plates. Very scarce, but priced based on condition

Hardcover with a dust-jacket. While an enzyme molecule or an eye might seem supremely improbable in their complexity, they are not accidental, nor need we assume that they are the designed handiwork of a Creator, asserts Oxford biologist Dawkins. This foremost neo-Darwinian exponent explains the dazzling array of living things as the result of natural selection. Dawkins explores how ordered… Read more about this item

Presents the life of a beloved children's writer and illustrator, describing his life as one of twenty-one children, his secret and violent struggle with epilepsy, his struggles with depression, and the inspiration for his works.

Learn to identify birds in Utah, and make bird-watching even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This book features 130 species of Utah birds organized by color for ease of use. Do you see a… Read more about this item

White, John. 1790. Journal of a voyage to New South Wales, with sixty-five plates of nondescript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. Printed for J. Debrett, London, xiv, 300 p., 36 p, [6 p.], 65 hand-colored plates. Half calf with marble boards and five raised bands. Some marginal paper repairs to some plates. Titlepage… Read more about this item

Lonely Planet's Tokyo is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Experience the Shinjuku nightlife, escape the modern world at Meiji-jingu, Tokyo's largest and most famous Shinto shrine, and tour the contemporary architectural marvels of the city; all with your trusted travel companion.… Read more about this item

Milne Edwards, Henri and F. Bocourt. 1869. Rapport sur le Voyage de M. Bocourt a Siam. Notes sur les Reptiles, les Batraciens et les Poissons recueillie Pendant un Voyage dans le Royaume de Siam. Nouvelles Archives du Museum Bulletin. 2: 1-20, 1 plate.

Parker, W. K. 1883. On the structure and development of the skull of the crocodilia. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 11 (9): 263-310, 10 plates. Original wrappers.

Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig. 1863. Über Cercosaura und die mit dieser Gattung verwandten Eidechsen aus Südamerica. Abhandlungen der königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1862 (4): 165-225, 3 plates. Original wrappers. Cercosaura humilis n. sp., Cercosaura (Pantodactylus) argulus n. sp., Ecpleopus (Pholidobolus) montium n. sp., Ecpleopus (Aspidolaemus) affinis n. sp., Ecpleopus (Oreosaurus) striatus n. sp., Ecpleopus (Oreosaurus) luctuosus n. sp.,… Read more about this item

Mearns, Edgar A. 1898. A study of the vertebrate fauna of the Hudson highlands, with observation on the Mollusca, Crustacea, Lepidotera, and the flora of the region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 10 (16): 303-352.

Meek, Seth E. 1899. Notes on a collection of cold-blooded vertebrates from the Olympic Mountains. Field Columbian Museum. 1 (12): 225-236. Salmo bathoecetor sp. nov., Salmo clarki jordani subsp. nov., Salmo clarki declivifrons subsp. nov., Thamnophis leptocephala olympia subsp. nov., Thamnophis rubristriata sp. nov.

Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1895. The hereditary mechanism and the search for the unknown factors of evolution. Biological Lectures delivered at The Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood Holl in the summer session of 1894. 79-100. Original wrappers. The state of knowledge about heredity shortly before Mendel's work was rediscovered.