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Green laurels : the lives and achievements of the great naturalists / Donald Culross Peattie.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Literary Guild, c1936.Description: xxiii, 368 p., [30] p. of plates : ill., chart, maps, ports. ; 25 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Green laurels.LOC classification:
  • QH26 .P4 1936
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 Linnean 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 commplace.
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Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves QK26 .P42 1936 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800063497
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-358) and index.

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 Linnean 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 commplace.

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