Methods of study in natural history

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Ticknor and Fields
Language
English
Pages
319

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Cover of: Methods of study in natural history.
Methods of study in natural history.
1970, Arno
in English
Cover of: Methods of study in natural history.
Methods of study in natural history.
1889, Houghton, Mifflin
in English - 19Th ed.
Cover of: Methods of study in natural history
Methods of study in natural history
1869, Fields, Osgood, & Co.
in English
Cover of: Methods of study in natural history
Methods of study in natural history
1869, Fields, Osgood, & Co.
in English
Cover of: Methods of study in natural history.
Methods of study in natural history.
1864, Ticknor and Fields
in English
Cover of: Methods of study in natural history
Methods of study in natural history
1863, Ticknor and Fields
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Table of Contents

General sketch of the early progress in natural history.
Nomenclature and classification.
Categories of classification.
Classification and creation.
Different views respecting orders.
Gradatin amon animals.
Analogous types.
Family characteristics.
The characters of genera.
Species and breeds.
Formation of coral reefs.
Age of coral reefs as showing permanence of species.
Homologies.
Alternate generations.
The ovarian egg.
Embryology and classification.

Edition Notes

"The series of papers collected in this volume may be considered as a complement or commentary to my 'Essay on classification' ... These chapters were first embodied in a course of lectures delivered at the Lowell institute in Boston."--Pref.
First printed in the Atlantic monthly, with exception of last chapter.

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Classification.

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Library of Congress
QL351 .A27 1863, QL351

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viii, 319 p. :
Number of pages
319

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Open Library
OL6986694M
Internet Archive
cu31924001155666
ISBN 10
0405026536
LCCN
07024450
OCLC/WorldCat
184641
LibraryThing
636865
Goodreads
3856014

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OL1500197W

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"IT is my intention, in this series of papers, to give the history of the progress in Natural History from the beginning,-to show how men first approached Nature,-how the facts of Natural History have been accumulated, and how these facts have been converted into science."

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