Title
Methods of study in natural history
By
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1864
Notes
"The series of papers collected in this volume may be considered as a complement or commentary to my 'Essay on classification' ... [presenting] in a more popular form the views first expressed in that book." "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.
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.
Subjects
Classification
,
Coral reefs and islands
,
Embryology
,
Evolution
,
Generations, Alternating
,
Zoology
Call Number
590 A26m
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.29529
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