Methods of study in natural history Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 creator text book Boston Ticknor and Fields 1864 1864
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ENG "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. 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. Classification Coral reefs and islands Embryology Evolution Generations, Alternating Zoology 590 A26m https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/29529 10.5962/bhl.title.29529 C