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By:
Locy, William A. 1857-1924.

Publication info:
New York,H. Holt and Company,1908.

Contributing Library:
MBLWHOI Library

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• Record Status: c
• Type of record: a
• Bibliographic level: m
• Type of control:
• Undefined: a
• Encoding level: I
• Descriptive cataloging form:
• Linked record requirement:

CONTROL FIELD

• Control Field 001: 5095

CONTROL FIELD

• Control Field 008: 750805s1908 nyuac b 00010 eng

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

• LC control number: 08021045

SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER

CATALOGING SOURCE

• Original cataloging agency: DLC
• Transcribing agency: FQG
• Modifying agency: SER

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER

• Classification number: QH305
• Item number: .L7

MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Locy, William A.
• Dates associated with a name: 1857-1924.
• Fuller form of name: (William Albert),

TITLE STATEMENT

• Title: Biology and its makers,
• Remainder of title page transcription/statement of responsibility: with portraits and other illustrations, by William A. Locy ...

PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)

• Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York,
• Name of publisher, distributor, etc.: H. Holt and Company,
• Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 1908.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

• Extent: xxvi, 469 p.
• Other physical details: illus. (incl. ports.)
• Dimensions: 23 cm.

BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE

• Bibliography, etc. note: "Reading list": p. 449-460.

FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE

• Formatted contents note: An outline of the rise of biology and of the epochs in its history.--Vesalius and the overthrow of authority in science.--William Harvey and experimental observation.--The introduction of the microscope and the progress of independent observation.--The progress of minute anatomy.--Linnæus and scientific natural history.--Cuvier and the rise of comparative anatomy.--Bichat and the birth of histology.--The rise of physiology. Harvey. Haller. Johannes Müller.--Von Baer and the rise of embryology.--The cell-theory. Schleiden. Schwann. Schultze.--Protoplasm the physical basis of life.--The work of Pasteur, Koch, and others.--Heredity and germinal continuity. Mendel. Galton. Weismann.--The science of fossil life.--What evolution is; the evidence upon which it rests, etc.--Theories of evolution. Lamarck. Darwin.--Theories continued. Wiesmann. De Vries.--The rise of evolutionary thought.--Retrospect and prospect. Present tendencies in biology.

SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM

• Topical term or geographic name as entry element: Biology
• General subdivision: History.