A zoological work by author of The League of the Iroquois, which also includes appendices reprinting Samuel Hearne's Account of the Beaver, and Edward Turner Bennett's article on the beaver, with W.W. Ely's notes on chapter two (which covers beaver anatomy). Engraved plates and fold-out maps (23 total), 23 woodcut illustrations in text, plus 3 more by Ely in his notes section.