Beschreibung:

DescriptionProperty from the Japan Society Library, LondonA collection of books and pamphlets on science, natural history, meteorology, volcanoes and climate, including a group of the Transactions of the Seismological Society
comprising:
A. J. C. Geerts, Les Produits de la Nature Japonaise et Chinoise (Yokohama: C. Lévy, 1878)Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Mammals of the Japanese Islands (Chang-hai: Université L’Aurore, 1943), donated by Sowerby Arthur de Carle on 23 August 1976Bogel Nering (ed. K. Ogawa), Equivalents of Japanese & foreign measures & weights: 4 tables (Tokyo, 1894)Bunijo Koto, On the cause of the great earthquake in central Japan 1891 (n. p., 1891)David Jordan, Review of the Oplegnathoid fishes of Japan (U.S. National Museum, n. d)David Jordan, Review of the Pediculate fishes or anglers of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1902)David Jordan, Descriptions of two new species of squaloid sharks from Japan (US National Museum, n. d.)David Jordan, Review of the Apodal fishes or eels of Japan with descriptions of nineteen new species (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1901)David Jordan, Review of the Gobioid fishes of Japan with descriptions of twenty-one new species (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1901)David Jordan, Review of the Hypostomide and Lophobranch fishes of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1901)David Jordan, Review of the Sparidæ and related families of perch-like fishes found in the waters of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1912)David Jordan (ed. Henry W. Fowler), Review of the cling-fishes (Gobiesocidæ) of the waters of Japan (U.S. National Museum, n. d.)David Jordan (ed. Henry W. Fowler), Review of the Trigger-fishes, file-fishes and trunk-fishes of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1902)David Jordan (ed. Henry W. Fowler), Review of the Chætodontidæ and related families of fishes found in the waters of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1902)David Jordan (ed. Henry W. Fowler), Notes on little-known Japanese fishes with the description of a new species of Aboma (US National Museum, n. d.)David Jordan (ed. Sindo Michitaro), Review of the Japanese species of Surf-fishes or Embiotocidæ (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1902)David Jordan (ed. John Snyder Otterbein), Lancelets, Hag fishes, Lampreys of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1901)David Jordan (ed. John Snyder Otterbein), Review of the Discobolus fishes of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1902)David Jordan (ed. John Snyder Otterbein), Lancelets, Hag fishes, Lampreys of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1901)David Jordan (ed. John Snyder Otterbein), Review of Labroid fishes and related forms found in the waters of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1902)David Jordan (ed. John Snyder Otterbein), Review of the Blennoid fishes of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1902)David Jordan (ed. SnyderJohn Otterbein), Review of the Salmonoid fishes of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1902)David Jordan (ed. John Snyder Otterbein), Review of the Gyanodont fishes of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1901)David Jordan (ed. William Thompson Francis , Review of the fishes of the families Lobotidæ and Lutianidæ found in the waters of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1914)David Jordan (ed. William Thompson Francis , A Review of the Sciænoid Fishes of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1911)David Jordan Edwin Chapin Starks, Review of the Atherine fishes of Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1901)Dr. C. E. Lischke, Japanische Meeres-Conchylien. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken Japan’s, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die geographische Verbreitung derselben [Zweiter Theil (1871); Dritter Theil (1874)] (Cassel Theodor Fischer 1869-74), donated by Ernest SatowEdward Ball Knobel, On the astronomical observations recorded in the Nihongi, the ancient chronicle of Japan (n. p., 1905), donated by Edward Ball KnobelFrancis Arthur Bather, Natural science in Japan (London: Natural Science (reprint), 1894)Francis O. Adams, Report of a Visit to the Central Silk Districts of Japan (Yokohama: Japan Times/General Chamber of Commerce, 1869)Frederick Stearns, Mollusca and other forms of marine life collected in the years 1889-1890 in Japan (Detroit, 1891)Frederick Stearns, List of duplicates of marine, land and freshwater shells from Japan, Loo Choo Islands, Bahamas, Hawaiian Islands, Philippine Islands, Polynesian Islands etc. (Detroit, 1896)Frederick Stearns, Letters from Japan to the Detroit Free press 1890-1893 (London: Japan Society, 1893)Harriet Richardson, Description of a New Species of Idotea from Hakodate Bay, Japan (National Museum, n. d.)Henry A. Pilsbry (ed. Stearns Frederick), Catalogue of the Marine Mollusks of Japan (Detroit: Frederick Stearns, 1895)Henry A. Pilsbry, New and hitherto unfigured Japanese mollusks (Philadelphia: Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1891)J. Percy Moore, Hyalodendron navalium, a new genus and species of euplectella sponge (Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1989)The Japanese government, Organisation of the meteorological system in Japan (Tokyo: Central Meteorological Observatory of Japan, 1893)John Milne  A large crater (n. p., 1845), donated by the authorJohn Milne, A visit to the volcano of Oshima (London: Trübner & Co., 1877), donated by the authorJohn Milne, On the forms of volcanos (Hertford, 1878), donated by the authorKiyoo Nakamura, The Climate of Japan (Tokyo: Central Meteorological Observatory of Japan, 1893)Leonhard Stejneger, Remarks on Japanese quails (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1894)Leonhard Stejneger, Notes on a Japanese species of reed warbler (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1893)Leonhard Stejneger, Notes on Japanese birds contained in the Science College Museum, Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1891)Leonhard Stejneger, Notes on Japanese birds contained in the Science College Museum, Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1891)Leonhard Stejneger, Notes on a third instalment of Japanese birds in Science College Museum, Tokyo, Japan, with descriptions of new species (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1893)Leonhard Stejneger, Collection...birds...H Henson...Yezo, Japan (n. p., 1892)Richard Newton  On some fossils from Formosa and Riu-Kiu (Loo Choo) (Tokyo: Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University (reprint), 1902)Shinsen Dai Nihon seizu, A new detailed map of Japan (n. p., 1895)T. Wayland Vaughan, New fossil species of Caryophyllia from California and a new genus and species of Turbinolid Coral from Japan (Washington DC: U.S. National Museum/Government Printing Office, 1900)Tarleton H. Bean (ed. Barton A. Bean), Notes on fishes collected in Kamchatka and Japan by Leonhard Stejneger and Nicholai A. Grebnitski with a description of a new blenny (Washington DC: Government Printing Office/Smithsonian Institution, 1896)The Tokyo University, Riga Diagaku Ahokubutsu HyohinCatalogue of Plants in the Herbarium of the College of Science, Imperial University (Tokyo: Maruya & Company, 1886)Dr. Toyokitsi Harada, Die Japanischen Inseln: eine Topographisch-Geologische Uebersicht [in German] (Berlin: Verlag von Paul Parey, 1890), donated by H. Mutsu[Anon.] (ed. Hyogo News), The Great Earthquake of (Hyogo News, 1892), donated by Martin J. E. in 1893
[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. I (part I-II, April-June 1880) (Japan Gazette Office, 1880)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. II (July-December 1880) (Tokyo: Kokubunsha, 1880)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. V (May-December 1882) (Government Printing Office - Reprinted by the Nisshusha Printing Office)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. VI (January-June 1883) (n. p., 1883)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. VII (part I-II, 1883-1884) (n. p., 1884)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. VIII (1885) (n. p., 1884)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. IX (part I-II, 1886) (n. p., 1886)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. X (1887) (Office of the Japan Mail, 1887)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. XI (1887) (Office of the Japan Mail, 1887)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. XII (1888) (Office of the Japan Mail, 1888)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. XIII (part I-II, 1889-1890) (Office of the Japan Mail, 1890)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. XIV (n. d.) (Office of the Japan Mail, n. d.)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. XV (1890) (Office of the Japan Mail, 1890)[Anon.], Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. vol. XVI (1892) (Office of the Japan Mail, 1892)Condition reportThe books are overall in fair condition.The pamphlets are all worn with some tearing and some separated pages.
All the books, journals and pamphlets have library stamps, some collection labels and library numbers stuck to the spines. 
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