Title
Methods of study in natural history
By
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
Wikidata:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q56656213