Publication

2006-07-30 - Brill Academic Publishers

Language

English

Word Count

29,750 words, Guess

Page Count

119 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

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  • Goodreads6961014

Classifications

  • LCCQL31.M248K37 2006

Description

"This book describes the life and work of Dr. Johannes Govertus de Man (1850-1930), a remarkable Dutch invertebrate zoologist. J.G. de Man worked on the systematics of both the Crustacea, in particular on Decapodia (i.e. crabs, crayfish, lobsters and shrimps), and the microscopically Nematoda or roundworms. The biographic part describes his years of childhood and youth, student days and the time he was working at the National Museum of Nautral History, Leiden, the Netherlands and the period after he resigned at the museum. Within appendices his publications, described Crustacea, Nematoda and other taxa, species names after de Man and the de Man archives is presented"--Back cover.

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