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Methods of study in natural history

Author: Louis Agassiz
Publisher: Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1863.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Louis Agassiz
ISBN: 0405026536 9780405026539
OCLC Number: 184641
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.
Description: viii, 319 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
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.
Responsibility: by L. Agassiz.

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