Bøker av David J. Schmidly

Focuses on the mammalian fauna of Texas. The book includes a reprinting of Vernon Bailey's 1905 ""The Biological Survey of Texas"" with new annotations and updates. In the rest of the book, the authors discuss changes in landscapes, land use, and the status of Texas mammals in the last hundred years.

Offers information on the mammalian wildlife of Texas. This book discusses historical changes in Texas mammals and the history of mammalogy in Texas. It also contains an overview of the mammals of Texas, photographs and drawings, distribution maps, physical descriptions, and life histories for 184 species of mammals.

For the first time, this volume presents Vernon Bailey's correspondences and field notes spanning the majority of his life and career, collected and annotated by David J. Schmidly. Born in 1864 and raised on a Minnesota farm, Vernon Bailey became the first person to conduct extensive biological surveys of Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Oregon.