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James Eights, 1798-1882 : Antarctic explorer, Albany naturalist, his life, his times, his work / Daniel L. McKinley.
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McKinley, Daniel
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Language
English
Published/Created
Albany, N.Y. : University of the State of New York, State Education Dept., 2005.
Description
xv, 456 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
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QH31.E53 M344 2005
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United States
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Biography
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Eights, James 1798-1882
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New York State Museum
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Series
Bulletin (New York State Museum : 1976) ; no. 505.
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New York State Museum bulletin, 0278-3355 ; no. 505
Summary note
Presents a synopsis of the life and times of a little-known but respected 19th century scientist from Albany, NY. Diverse in various fields of natural history, James Eights explored extensively in New York and participated in forays ranging from Antarctica to Chile, Panama, Mexico, and possibly the American Southwest. Many of the biological and geological specimens he collected were donated to the State Museum. By gathering information from a myriad of sources, author Daniel McKinley brings to life Eights' professional career and emphasizes the theory that Eights' contributions to science have been underestimated and misunderstood.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-455).
Contents
1. Why bother about James Eights? ; The Eights family ; Dr. Jonathan Eights
2. James Eights finds his legs: from birth to the Erie Canal years
3. The young naturalist: from Albany to the City of New York
4. James Eights in the Antarctic, getting started, 1828-1829
5. James Eights in the Antarctic: the southward trip, 1829
6. James Eights in the Antarctic: farthest south, 1830
7. James Eights: Chile and the return from the south
8. Southern and Antarctic plants of James Eights
9. Southern and Antarctic biology: mollusks
10. Antarctic biology: crustacea
Brongniartia: Sphaeroma: Glyptonotus
11. Who wanted to see a ten-legged sea-spider? James Eights's strange Pycnogonid, Decolopoda australis
12. Eights in Albany: the Zodiac years, 1830-1836
(I): "The Naturalist's Every Day Book"
13. Eights in Albany: the later Zodiac years, 1830-1836
(II): pedestrian, geologist, entomologist, historian
14. The New York Natural History Survey, 1836
15. The great South Sea bubble
16. Remonstrances, reactions, and the 1840s
17. Albany in the early 1850s
18. The 1850s: the gold fields of North Carolina
19. The 1850s: James Eights as an artist
20. Catalogue of the drawings of James Eights
21. Eights in Panamá and Texas? the end of the 1850s
22. James Eights in the 1860s
23. Pinksterfest, Pennsylvania coal: the end to the 1860s
24. James Eights: the decline, 1870-1900
25. The road back: 1900 to 1920
26. Twentieth century: the 1920s and early 1930s
27. Fame claims James Eights, 1933-1960
28. James Eights: the end of a second century
29. James Eights as others saw him: the portraits with an appendix on Ebenezer Emmons Jr.
30. James Eights: published and manuscript works
31. James Eights, a bibliography of cited and consulted works.
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ISBN
1555572235
9781555572235
SuDoc no.
MUS 950-4 JAMES 206-4421
LCCN
2005926866
OCLC
67618246
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