Mammals of Ungava and Labrador: The 1882-1884 Fieldnotes of by Bryony Anderson,Scott A. Heyes,Kristofer M. Helgen,Tim

By Bryony Anderson,Scott A. Heyes,Kristofer M. Helgen,Tim Flannery

In 1882 the Smithsonian establishment Arctic scientist, Lucien McShan Turner, traveled to the Ungava District that encompasses Northern Quebec and Labrador. There he spent 20 months as a part of a venture to list meteorological info for a world Polar 12 months study software. whereas stationed on the Hudson's Bay corporation buying and selling publish of fortress Chimo in Ungava Bay, now the Inuit neighborhood of Kuujjuaq, he quickly bored with his basic job and improved his tasks to a learn of the typical historical past and ethnography of the Aboriginal peoples of the region.

His ethnography of the Inuit and Innu humans was once released in 1894, yet his sizeable writings on ordinary background by no means made it to print. awarded right here for the 1st time is the typical historical past fabric that Lucien M. Turner wrote on mammals of the Ungava and Labrador areas. His writings supply a glimpse of the conduct and kinds of mammals that roamed Ungava a hundred twenty five years in the past in what used to be an unknown frontier to non-Inuit and non-Innu people.

Show description

Read Online or Download Mammals of Ungava and Labrador: The 1882-1884 Fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu Knowledge PDF

Similar zoology books

Neural Communication and Control: Satellite Symposium of the 28th International Congress of Physiological Science, Debrecen, Hungary, 1980

Advances in Physiological Sciences, quantity 30: Neural verbal exchange and keep an eye on is a suite of papers offered on the 1980 satellite tv for pc symposium of the twenty eighth foreign Congress of Physiological technology, held in Visegrá Hungary. This quantity consists of 26 chapters and starts off with an outline of frightened components and structures at the phylogenetic scale.

Tier- und Humanphysiologie: Eine Einführung (German Edition)

Spannende Fragen aus Alltag und gegenwärtiger Forschung sind der Ausgangspunkt für einen Überblick über die Tier- und Humanphysiologie. Die Autoren führen grundlegend in die Physiologie von Mensch und Tier ein. Alle physiologischen Themen werden einführend und verständlich behandelt und didaktisch durchdacht illustriert.

The Physiological Ecology of Tunas

The Physiological Ecology of Tunas records the complaints of the Tuna body structure Workshop held on the nationwide Marine Fisheries carrier Southwest Fisheries heart at los angeles JoDa, California, January 10-15, 1977. The contributions made by way of researchers on the workshop are equipped into seven chapters. the 1st bankruptcy contains experiences at the morphological range and muscle-tissue-specific enzymatic attributes of scombrids.

Animal Electroencephalography

Animal Electroencephalography specializes in using electroencephalography (EEG) in learning mind electrical task. The manuscript first underscores the physiologic bases of EEG and the features and utilization of electrodes. Discussions specialise in simple components of nerve mobile functionality, common nature of EEG, implantation of intracerebral electrodes, and affixing floor electrodes.

Additional info for Mammals of Ungava and Labrador: The 1882-1884 Fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu Knowledge

Sample text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.98 of 5 – based on 8 votes