About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: John Ruskin, William John Swainson, James Sowerby, Henry Suter, Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer, Conchology, Wilhelm Dunker, Guido Poppe, Matthew William Kemble Connolly, Charles Torrey Simpson, Philip Pearsall Carpenter, Dezallier d'Argenville, Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud, William Boys, Cesar Marie Felix Ancey, Bohumil Shimek, Hugh Cuming, R. Tucker Abbott, Jean Guillaume Bruguiere, William Broderip, Gerard Paul Deshayes, Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley, Thomas Brown, Joseph Pitty Couthouy, Augustus Addison Gould, Arnold Edward Ortmann, James Charles Cox, Arthur William Baden Powell, Lewis Weston Dillwyn, Oskar Boettger, Pierre Marie Heude, Pierre Denys de Montfort, Peter Friedrich Roding, Isaac Lea, Lovell Augustus Reeve, Samuel Stehman Haldeman, James Ferriss, Claude Sionnest, William Stimpson, John Gwyn Jeffreys, Felix Pierre Jousseaume, Arthur Adams, James Bulwer, Frederic Cailliaud, Emanuel Mendez da Costa, Filippo Bonanni, William Turton, Maria Emma Gray, Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, Friedrich Christian Meuschen, Edgar Albert Smith, George Brettingham Sowerby I, Friedrich Wilhelm Martini, John Lightfoot, Christian Hee Hwass, William Cooper, Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse, Charles Francis Laseron, Lorenz Spengler, Herbert Huntington Smith, George Brettingham Sowerby III, Niccolo Gualtieri, Conquiliologistas do Brasil, Henry Adams, Temple Prime. Excerpt: John Ruskin (8 February 1819 - 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also a draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing style and form was equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, letters and even a...
