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LYDEKKER, Richard. The Royal Natural History Edited by... With a Preface by P.L Slater. Illustrated with Seventy-Two Coloured Plates and Sixteen Hundred Engravings... London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1893-1896. In six volumes. 4to., orig. brown cloth with elaborate pictorial decoration on the upper covers. Name, a bit of fading to the upper cover of volume six but in fact an attractive set.
"Richard Lydekker is not one of the great names in the history of zoogeographical inquiry, but he did explore the subject frequently, often as a function of his studies in vertebrate palaeontology. As a young man he joined the Geological Survey of India, and there he was able to carry out extensive investigations that prepared him for his later position with the British Museum of Natural History. On returning from India he was charged by the Museum to prepare catalogues of their fossil vertebrate collections; this was accomplished in less than ten years. In his later years Lydekker took an increasing interest in public venues, contributing to changes in exhibit design at the Museum and preparing many writings of a more popular orientation. Lydekker was also influential in the science of biogeography. In 1895 he delineated the biogeographical boundary through Indonesia, known as Lydekker's Line, that separates Wallacea on the west from Australia-New Guinea on the east."