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Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals

R., Mrs. Lee

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 261 pages

Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals is a Victorian essay collection by Mrs. R. Lee, compiling anecdotes and observations about animal behavior and instinct. It presents these accounts in an accessible, illustrated form, drawing on the author's own notes and contributions from friends. It is worth listening to for its curious natural-history lore and period prose.

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ANECDOTES

OF

THE HABITS AND INSTINCT

OF ANIMALS.

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Signed Copy

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The Monkey Painter—Page 7.

By Mrs. R. Lee,

FORMERLY MRS. T. E. BOWDICH,

AUTHOR OF "THE AFRICAN WANDERERS," "ADVENTURES IN AUSTRALIA,"

"MEMOIRS OF CUVIER," ETC.

WITH

ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRISON WEIR.

LONDON:

GRANT AND GRIFFITH,

SUCCESSORS TO J. HARRIS,

CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.

M.DCCC.LII.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY J. WERTHEIMER AND CO.,

CIRCUS PLACE, FINSBURY.

PREFACE.

In making a selection of anecdotes, those have been assembled which were supplied by me to other works,

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Contents

  1. ANECDOTES OF THE HABITS AND INSTINCT OF ANIMALS.
  2. ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS.

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