The reptile book; a comprehensive, popularized work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico
The reptile book; a comprehensive, popularized work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico
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Fine. No dust jacket. xxxii, 472, [1] p. col. front., plates (part col. ) 26 cm. Includes Plates. New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company.1933. Green Cloth. With 8 plates in color and more than 400 other illustrations. large 8vo., xxxii, 472pp. Raymond Lee Ditmars (born June 22, 1876 from Newark, New Jersey, died May 12, 1942 in New York City) was an American herpetologist. Ditmars parents were Dutch immigrants, originally with the family name Ditmarsen. He was very interested in animals, (primarily reptiles), obtaining his first snakes at twelve years of age. Only a mediocre student, he much preferred vacations when he could search for new specimens or study them at his house. In 1893, Ditmars was hired by the Department of Entomology at the American Museum of Natural History as an illustrator. He quit in 1897 to take a better-paying job as a stenogra. Text pher. In July 1898, he began to report for the New York Times. One of his first pieces led him to discover the newly created New York Zoological Society, which had just built a zoological park in the Bronx. He was soon employed as an assistant conservationist in charge of reptiles in July 1899. He then offered his own collection to the zoo, where it is now a permanent part of the natural history museum. Edges rubbed and scuffed. Top corner of the cover is slightly bent. small stain on the top edge of about 10 pages, about 1/4" Text and photos clean and unmarked. AB62
