Title continues: "or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. Containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late Northern Land Expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N." Includes bats, mice, bears, badgers, weasels, ermines, martens, fishers, skunks, otters, wolves, dogs, foxes, lynx, beavers, lemmings, rats, marmots, squirrels, porcupines, hares, caribou, wapiti, deer, antiolope, goat, bison, etc. The first part of a 4-volume natural history of the Arctic. Based on info Richardson collected as surgeon-naturalist on Franklin's two arctic overland expeditions 1819-22 and 1825-27. Arctic Bib. 14491. Lande S1924. Morgan p. 319. Peel 91. Sabin 71026. Streeter VI 3700. TPL 1454. Wagner-Camp 39.
