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1864
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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.
Gradation among 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.
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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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