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Methods of study in natural history /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Ticknor and Fields, [1863]
Subjects:
Animals > Classification.
Coral reefs and islands.
Generations, Alternating.
Embryology.
Evolution.
Table of 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.