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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Dark covers with gilt lettering on spine, lightly bumped spine-ends. Sound binding. Clean pages. Fold-out plates are clean and intact. Contents include: Production of iron and steel by the electric smelting process, by E J Ljungberg; The determination of the economy of reversing rolling-mills, by C A Ablett; The 'growth' of cast irons after repeated heatings, by H F Rugan & H C H Carpenter; Uniform moisture in blast, by Greville Jones; The fuel economy of dry blast as indicated by calculations from empirical data, by R S Moore; Artificial magnetic oxide of iron, by F J R Carulla; The action of air and steam on pure iron, by J Newton Friend; The serviceable life and cost of renewals of permanent way of British railways, by R Price-Williams; Tests of cast iron, by E Adamson; The constitution of carbon-tungsten steels, by T Swinden; The corrosion of iron, by J Newton Friend; Notes on Works and Places of Interested visited at the London Meeting - Siemens Brothers & Co Ltd, Woolwich; Royal Arsenal Woolwich; Woolwich Town Hall; Fraser & Chalmers Ltd, Erith; London County Council Electric Generating Station, Greenwich; Ironmongers' Hall; Armourers and Brasiers' Hall; National Physical Laboratory, Teddington; D Napier & Son Ltd, Acton; Mitchell Motor Works and Garage; Lambeth Palace; Royal Doulton Potteries; Royal Small-Arms Factory, Enfield Lock; Power Plant Co Ltd, West Drayton; Mercers' Hall; Portsmouth Dockyard & H M Naval Establishments; Report on the Fifth Congress of the International Association for Testing Materials, by G C Lloyd; Obituary; Notes on the Progress of the Home and Foreign Iron and Steel Industries. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 02618111003. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.

Condition: New. xiv, 294, 89 col plates. 270x195mm. HB. NEW. . The first major systematic review of this unique and highly-threatened fauna to appear in nearly a century. Full colour plates of snails - the first comprehensively illustrated work on the Western Ghats land snail fauna. This region includes the western coastline of the Indian peninsula and the lowlands and foothills surrounding the main mountain range. This revision considers 337 taxa (229 species, 38 'varieties', 64 genera, 23 families). This revision evaluates and clarifies the nomenclature and taxonomy of these snails within a modern systematic framework, designating lectotypes and neotypes where appropriate, and provides colour images and specimen data of type material for all the taxa together with distributional data. [9786165518000].

A Systematic Revision of the Land Snails of the Western Ghats of India is the first, major systematic review of this unique and highly-threatened fauna to appear in nearly a century. With 89 full-page colour plates of snails, it breaks new ground by being the first comprehensively-illustrated work on the Western Ghats land-snail fauna. Defining the Western Ghats as including the western coastline of the Indian peninsula and the lowlands and foothills surrounding the main mountain range, this revision considers a total of 337 taxa (299 species and 38 so-called 'varieties' belonging to 64 genera in 23 familie). These taxa are mostly snails recorded from the Western Ghats (277 species and 29 'varieties' belonging to 64 genera in 23 families), but also included are a few taxa that probably occur in this region, but have yet to be detected. The new publication evaluates and clarifies the nomenclature and taxonomy of these snails within a modern systematic framework, designating lectotypes and neotypes where appropriate, and for the first time provides colour images and specimen data of type material for all the Western Ghats taxa, alongside distributional data from the original literature. It also includes a comprehensive geo-referenced index of localities for the taxa considered. Bangkok, Thailand. Chulalongkorn University Museum of Natural History. 294 pp., 95 color plates, hardcover 4 [19.7 x 26.7 cm].