The Natural History of Tutbury. Together with the Fauna and Flora of the District Surrounding Tutbury and Burton-on-TrentJohn Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, 1863 - 424 pages |
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The Natural History of Tutbury: Together with the Fauna and Flora of the ... Oswald Mosley No preview available - 2009 |
The Natural History of Tutbury: Together with the Fauna and Flora of the ... Oswald Mosley No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 389 - Tortoise (Emys lutraria), a species the existence of which at any time in the British Islands has never before been suspected. These were found, as a label upon them in Mr. Birch's handwriting testifies, so long ago as June 1836, in a peat-bog, by the side of a spring-pit, at East...
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