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Book Review

Texas Natural History: A Century of Change. By David J. Schmidly. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2002. xiv + 534 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.
Texas Natural History: A Century of Change examines changes in the natural history of Texas over the twentieth century by comparing changes in the distribution and abundance of mammals in the state. The centerpiece of the book is a reprint of a 1905 report on the mammals of Texas by Vernon Bailey of the USDA Bureau of Biological Survey (pp. 51–266). David Schmidly—a professor and field zoologist—provides the historical context for the survey in a chapter that briefly traces the history of the Biological Survey and the biologists that did the Texas field work, and provides the biological context in a chapter that annotates the 1905 report. . . .
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