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