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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ewan, Joseph, 1909-1999. John Banister and his natural history of Virginia, 1678-1692. Urbana, University of Illinois Press [1970] (OCoLC)706859494 |
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Named Person: | John Banister; John Banister; John Banister; John Banister; John Banister |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph Ewan; Nesta Ewan |
ISBN: | 0252000757 9780252000751 |
OCLC Number: | 105900 |
Notes: | Banister's catalogues, with commentary, appear in pt. 2 (p. 141-401). |
Description: | xxx, 485 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, folded map ; 25 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. Banister's colleagues in science -- Oxford years and influences -- To the New World -- Associations in Virginia : the Byrds, Reverend John Clayton, Commissary Blair -- Minister or missionary -- Plans with British colleagues for a natural history of Virginia -- The last field trip -- His estate, and the use and disposition of his works -- The futile search for a successor, and John Clayton, clerk and botanist -- "Mr. Banister's works" as copies -- Bannister commemorated -- Books of Banister's bearing his signature -- Books in the Byrd library which were probably Banister's -- pt. 2. The plant catalogue -- The insect and arachnid catalogue -- Mollusca, fossils, and stones -- The general natural history and account "of the natives." |
Responsibility: | Joseph and Nesta Ewan. |
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