Notes on Trochus niloticus. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, Scientific Reports, Volume III number 5 [Geoffrey Tandy's copy]
by Moorhouse, F.W
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1932. Slim quarto, pp (11), paperback, a very good copy. [With the signature of Geoffrey Tandy on the upper cover. Tandy (1900-1969) was a British marine biologist and broadcaster. A friend of T. S. Eliot, Tandy was the first to broadcast Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats in 1937. During the Second World War he worked at Bletchley Park, allegedly invited there after the Ministry of Defence confused the word "cryptogamist" with "cryptogramist" ! But whilst at Bletchley his technical expertise allowed him to salvage a waterlogged codebook which helped crack the Enigma code.]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014251
- Title
- Notes on Trochus niloticus. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, Scientific Reports, Volume III number 5 [Geoffrey Tandy's copy]
- Author
- Moorhouse, F.W
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- British Museum (Natural History)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- gastropod.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Invertebrates; Molluscs & Conchology;
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