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The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage; comp. from the collections and notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalist of the expedition, during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits performed in His Majesty's ship Blosso
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1839
unpublished
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. of specimens presented by him to the Museum at Haslar Hospital. The specimens of the Mammalia brought home are, as might be expected, fewer than those of the other classes of animals. Captain Cook mentions, that during one month's stay in Nootka Sound, the only quadrupeds seen by his crews were two or three racoons, martins, and squirrels, though he obtained the skins of many other species from the natives ; and Kotzebue, who passed a whole season at the Russian American
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