Contribution a l’etude Morphologique, Biologique et systematique des Amphibiens, Urodeles de la Chine This monograph is based primarily

This monograph is based primarily on 14 months of fieldwork from 1921-1922 in the Riu Kiu islands (also known as the Loo Cho islands) that stretch between the Japanese island chain and Formosa (now Taiwan)

This volume is number 1 presented to Fernwood Press (Pty) Ltd signed by the authors

Early acid-etched brown calf

swans and screamers of the world

’  Many of the text pages are uncut and unopened

Contribution a l’etude Morphologique, Biologique et systematique des Amphibiens, Urodeles de la Chine This monograph is based primarilyPp. 156, 5 full page plates (line drawings), 3 distribution maps, 20 text figures. Early brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, 8vo. This volume is based on Changs Ph. D. dissertation which he completed in 1936 at the University of Paris. This monograph is the first complete study of Chinese salamanders (Adler, volume 2, p. 186). The work is warmly inscribed by the author to American herpetologist to Dr. E. R. Dunn; the inscription is in English.