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Methods of study in natural history
1886, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
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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.

Edition Notes

"The series of papers collected in this volume may be considered as a complement ... to my 'Essay on classification'... These chapters were first embodied in a course of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston."--Pref., p. [iii]-vi.

First printed in the Atlantic monthly, with the exception of the last chapter.

SCDIRB copy 39088011567427 is the gift of David H. DeVorkin.

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: The Norman Williams Public Library ... received April, 1887. Stamped "Discarded."

SCDIRB copy has a bookseller's label on front free endpaper: Estes & Lauriat, new & old books, Boston.

SCDIRB copy has the publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine, gray endpapers, and top edge gilt.

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Agassiz's Methods of study in natural history, Atlantic monthly.
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1863

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viii, 319 p. :
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OL25510155M
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19471033

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