Partial contents: Condition and Doings of the Boston Society of Natural History….Boston, 1867. * An Account of the Organization and Progress of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College…Cambridge, 1871. * (Agassiz, Louis): Annual Report of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology…Boston, 1864. * Rau, Charles: Indian Pottery. Pp. 346-355, with illustrations in the text. Two copies. Extracted from unidentified source. * Gill, Theodore: Prodrome of a Monograph of the Pinnipedes. From the Proceedings of the Essex Institute, 1866. * Desor, E.: Palafittes, or Lacustrian Constructions of the Lake of Neuchatel. Pp. 347-409, with 92 figures in the text. Extracted from unidentified source. * Annual Reports of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College for the years 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, Annual Meteorological Synopsis for the Year 1865…by J. B. Trembley in the City of Toledo. * Same for 1866 and 1867. * Newberry, J.S.: The Rock Oils of Ohio. 16 pp. Extracted from unidentified source. * Whittlesey, Charles: On the Evidences of the Antiquity of Man in the United States. * Newberry, J. S. Modern Scientific Investigation: its Methods and Tendencies. An Address delivered before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, August 1867. With a signed presentation to Kirtland. * Act of Incorporation, Constitution, By-Laws, and Lists of Officers and Members of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, with a Historical Sketch of the Association, 1865. * And others. (8vo) black half morocco and cloth, some original printed paper wrappers bound in.
From the library of Jared P. Kirtland, contemporary bookplate on pastedown, and his signature in the upper margin of the first page of two of the items.
Condition:
Binding rubbed at the extremities; top inch of front joint just starting. Some scattered browning, staining and foxing; one page with a hole torn, with the loss of just a few letters, not affecting legibility; three of the items are trimmed too close, with some slight loss of text; very good.