James Eights, 1798-1882 : Antarctic explorer, Albany naturalist, his life, his times, his work, Daniel L. McKinley

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James Eights, 1798-1882 : Antarctic explorer, Albany naturalist, his life, his times, his work, Daniel L. McKinley

Link

• https://archive.org/details/jameseights179815052mcki
• https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22739128M

Title remainder

Antarctic explorer, Albany naturalist, his life, his times, his work

Statement of responsibility

Daniel L. McKinley

Instantiates

• James Eights, 1798-1882 : Antarctic explorer, Albany naturalist, his life, his times, his work

Publication

• Albany, N.Y., University of the State of New York, State Education Dept., 2005

Bibliography note

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

Extent

1 online resource (xv, 456 pages

Form of item

online

Other physical details

illustrations (some color))

Ownership

Miller, Norton G.

Record ID

jameseights179815052mcki

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remote