On certain species of deer now or lately living in the Society's menagerie

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With 12 full-page hand-colored plates by J. Smit and 8 text illustrations. Bound into cloth-covered boards; other than very minor spotting on a couple of the plates, a very good copy from the library of James M. Dolan, Jr., with his bookplate on the paste-down. Also includes a number of original photographs of deer taken in 1985. First separate printing. Apparently a newly-erected deer house was placed in the Gardens of the Society's property resulting in the acquisition of "species which are very little known to science." Sclater describes nine of these animals, all belonging to the genus Cervus, which are accompanied by the brilliant illustrations of John Smit. Sclater (1829-1913), a well-known and highly productive (over 1400 publications) ornithologist by trade, is also remembered for his 1858 paper setting out the faunal regions classification of zoogeography later adopted by Alfred Russel Wallace. He was the founder and for many years the editor of Ibis, secretary of the Zoological Society of London, a member of more than forty professional societies at home and abroad, and a council member of the Royal Society of London. N° de ref. del artículo 16341

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