Author:Jonathan Couch

Jonathan Couch
(1789–1870)

Jonathan Couch

Works

• Couch, Jonathan (1838–1844). A Cornish Fauna : being a compendium of the Natural History of the County, intended to form a companion to the Collection in the Museum of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. 
  has three parts:
  • —— (1838). A Cornish Fauna : being a compendium of the Natural History of the County, intended to form a companion to the Collection in the Museum of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. Part 1: The Vertebrate Animals and Crustaceans. Truro: Lake & Lake.  with revisions and large additions by J. Brooking Rowe F.L.S. (Mammalia); Thomas Cornish (Reptilia and Pisces); E.H. Rodd (Aves) and C. Spence Bate (Crustaceans). (1878 ed.: (external scan))
  • —— (1841). A Cornish Fauna : being a compendium of the Natural History of the County, intended to form a companion to the Collection in the Museum of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. Part 2: The Testaceous Mollusks. Truro: printed for the Royal Institution of Cornwall.  (external scan)
  • —— (1844). A Cornish Fauna : being a compendium of the Natural History of the County, intended to form a companion to the Collection in the Museum of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. Part 3: Zoophytes and Calcareous Corallines. Truro: printed for the Royal Institution of Cornwall.  (external scan)
• —— (1862–1865). A History of the Fishes of the British Islands. London: Groombridge and Sons.  in 4 volumes; with coloured plates (external scan)
• —— (1871). The History of Polperro, a Fishing Town on the South Coast of Cornwall; Being a Description of the Place, Its People, Their Manners, Customs, Modes of Industry, &c. Truro / London: Lake / Simpkin, Marshall & Co.  (with an Introductory skets of the life of Jonathan Couch by Thomas Q. Couch) (external scan)

Works about Couch

• "Couch, Jonathan," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• Tucker, Denys W. (1956). "A Cornish Ichtyologist in Fact and Faction: "Q" (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch) on his Grandfather, Jonathan Couch (1789–1870)". Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 3 (3): 137–151.  (available via TWL)