01988cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000360012624500540016226400510021630000470026733600260031433700260034033800360036650000960040250000310049850801960052952005900072553400510131565300620136665300530142865300420148185600720152385600430159577691UtSlPG20260610134811.0mcr n260607r20261856utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a06007156  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aQH1 aRussell, Alexander,d1715?-176814aThe natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Natural_History_of_Aleppo  aRelease date is 2026-01-13  aCharlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)  aThe Natural History of Aleppo is a 1756 book by naturalist Alexander Russell on the natural history of Aleppo. In 1794 his half-brother, Patrick Russell, revised and expanded the text in a second edition. The book is significant for its quality, the contemporary interest it attracted, and for being a product of the Scottish Enlightenment.
When the book was published it was immediately an important European record and perspective on the state of contemporary science in Syria.
The book contains the earliest known description of the Syrian hamster. (This summary is from Wikipedia.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: A. Millar, 1756  aNatural history -- Syria -- Aleppo -- Early works to 1800  aPlague -- Syria -- Aleppo -- Early works to 1800  aAleppo (Syria) -- Early works to 18004 uhttps://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryof00russ/page/n5/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77691