Natural History / Zoology / Classification / Great Britain / 18th & 19th Centuries

The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination

Ritvo, Harriet

Purcell, Rosamond

Harvard University Press

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Natural History / Zoology / Classification / Great Britain / 18th & 19th Centuries

The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination