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A CENTURY OF ZOOLOGY IN AMERICA 

 By WESLEY R. COE 



THIS article is intended as a brief survey of the 

 development of zoology in America, and no attempt 

 is made to give a general history of the science. 

 There are numerous accounts in several languages of 

 zoological history in general, among them being W. A. 

 Locy's "Biology and its Makers. " Brief outlines of the 

 history of zoology may be found in many zoological and 

 biological text-books. 



For the history of American zoology the reader is 

 referred to Packard's report on "A Century's Progress 

 in American Zoology," published in the American Nat- 

 uralist, (10, 591, 1876), to Packard's "History of Zool- 

 ogy," published in volume 1 of the Standard Natural 

 History (pp. Ixii to Ixxii, 1885); to G. B. Goode's 

 "Beginnings of Natural 'History in America," 1 and 

 "Beginnings of American Science," 2 and to H. S. Pratt 's 

 Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals (pp. 1-9), 

 1916. In Binney's "Terrestrial Air-breathing Mollusks 

 of the United States" (1851) is a chapter on the rise of 

 scientific zoology in the United States which well describes 

 the zoological conditions in the early part of the century, 

 while numerous monographs and papers give the history 

 of the investigations on the various groups of animals 

 or on special fields of study. 



Brief biographical sketches of the most distinguished 

 of our older Naturalists Wilson, Audubon, Agassiz, 

 "Wyman, Gray, Dana, Baird, Marsh, Cope, Goode and 

 Brooks are given in "Leading American Men of Sci- 

 ence," edited by David Starr Jordan, 1910. More exten- 

 sive biographies have been published separately, and the 

 activities of a number of the more prominent American 



