A natural history of Nevis, and the rest of the English Leeward Charibee Islands in America: with many other observations on nature and art
During his five years in the 1730s as rector of St John's parish on the Caribbean island of Nevis, William Smith collected a number of remarkable seashells, which he presented to the Woodwardian Museum of Fossils at the University of Cambridge nine years after his return to England. When the in...
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| Zusammenfassung: | During his five years in the 1730s as rector of St John's parish on the Caribbean island of Nevis, William Smith collected a number of remarkable seashells, which he presented to the Woodwardian Museum of Fossils at the University of Cambridge nine years after his return to England. When the incumbent Woodwardian Professor, Charles Mason, asked Smith for 'some account' of the Nevis shells, Smith wrote him a series of eleven undated letters, published as this book in 1745, containing observations on the island's flora and fauna, and details relating to the neighbouring islands. Mason and Smith became friends, and the content of the letters gradually diverged from pure recollection to larger digressions on subjects as varied as cryptography, diseases common to slaves, tarantulas, and the Great Wall of China. The result is an idiosyncratic snapshot of the mind of an educated and slightly eccentric cleric in eighteenth-century England |
| Beschreibung: | Originally published in Cambridge by J. Bentham. - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (318 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781139696500 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781139696500 |
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| spelling | Smith, William Verfasser aut A natural history of Nevis, and the rest of the English Leeward Charibee Islands in America with many other observations on nature and art William Smith Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2014 1 online resource (318 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Cambridge library collection. North American history Originally published in Cambridge by J. Bentham. - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016) During his five years in the 1730s as rector of St John's parish on the Caribbean island of Nevis, William Smith collected a number of remarkable seashells, which he presented to the Woodwardian Museum of Fossils at the University of Cambridge nine years after his return to England. When the incumbent Woodwardian Professor, Charles Mason, asked Smith for 'some account' of the Nevis shells, Smith wrote him a series of eleven undated letters, published as this book in 1745, containing observations on the island's flora and fauna, and details relating to the neighbouring islands. Mason and Smith became friends, and the content of the letters gradually diverged from pure recollection to larger digressions on subjects as varied as cryptography, diseases common to slaves, tarantulas, and the Great Wall of China. The result is an idiosyncratic snapshot of the mind of an educated and slightly eccentric cleric in eighteenth-century England Smith, William / Revd. Mr / Correspondence Mason, Charles / Correspondence Natural history / Saint Kitts and Nevis / Nevis Natural history / Leeward Islands (West Indies) Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe 978-1-108-07699-9 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139696500 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
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| title_short | A natural history of Nevis, and the rest of the English Leeward Charibee Islands in America |
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