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An edition of Green Laurels (1936)

Green Laurels

the lives and achievements of the great naturalists

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The lives and achievements of the great naturalists, from medieval herbalists to Charles Darwin and Jean-Henri Fabre.

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Simon and Schuster
Language
English
Pages
368

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Subjects
Naturalists, Biography

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Cover of: Green laurels
Green laurels: the lives and achievements of the great naturalists.
1938, Garden City Publishing
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Cover of: Green laurels
Green laurels: the lives and achievements of the great naturalists
1938, Garden City publishing co., inc.
in English - De luxe ed.
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Cover of: Green Laurels
Green Laurels: the lives and achievements of the great naturalists
1936, Simon and Schuster
in English
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Table of Contents

Schoolmen and herbalists
The lens turned on life
Science at court -Buffon and Réaumur
The green world opens
The life work of Linnaeus
Glories and follies of the Linnaean age
A chevalier in science: Lamarck
Anatomist against dreamer: Cuvier and Lamarck
Wilderness plantsmen: Bartram and Michaux
Wilderness birdsmen: Wilson and Audubon
Frontier Utopians: Say, Rafinesque, and others
Rose spectacles: Goethe and the romanticists
Ultimate isles: Darwin and Wallace
Darwinism and the man behind it
Fabre and the epic commonplace

Edition Notes

"Sources and reference material": p. [349]-358.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
925.9
Library of Congress
QH26 .P4, QH26 .P4 1936

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 368 p., 2 l.
Number of pages
368

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OL6339542M
Internet Archive
greenlaurelslive00peat
LCCN
36016707
OCLC/WorldCat
550795, 9450347
Library Thing
2692250

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