Methods of study in natural history

Title Variants

Alternative: Agassiz's Methods of study in natural history

By

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

Lowell Institute.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886, c1863

Edition

17th ed.

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.

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

Animals , Classification , Coral reefs and islands , Embryology , Evolution , Generations, Alternating

Call Number

QL351 .A27 1886

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.63982
OCLC: 19471033