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All Creatures : Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950.
We humans share Earth with 1.4 million known species and millions more species that are still unrecorded. Yet we know surprisingly little about the practical work that produced the vast inventory we have to date of our fellow creatures. How were these multitudinous creatures collected, recorded, and...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: Nature; Natural History Survey; Inner Frontiers; Twilight Zones; Impressions; Conclusion; CHAPTER TWO: Culture; Nature-Going; Middle-Class Vacation: From Leisure to Recreation; Recreation and Natural Science; Nature Essay and Diorama; The Science of Art; Conclusion; CHAPTER THREE: Patrons; Natural History Surveys; Museum Exhibition and Collecting; Museum Collecting: An Overview; Research Museums and Their Patrons; Conclusion; CHAPTER FOUR: Expedition; The Field Party; System; Communication. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a InfrastructureMobility and Automobility; Conclusion; CHAPTER FIVE: Work; Work and Skill; Pleasures; Pains; Careers; Women in the Field; Identity; Conclusion; CHAPTER SIX: Knowledge; Species and Survey Collecting; Taxonomists: A Natural History; Subspecies and Practice; Subspecies: The History; Subspecies in Crisis; Conclusion; CHAPTER SEVEN: Envoi; From Collecting to Observing; A Changing World; Biodiversity Revisited; Abbreviations; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. | |
| 520 | |a We humans share Earth with 1.4 million known species and millions more species that are still unrecorded. Yet we know surprisingly little about the practical work that produced the vast inventory we have to date of our fellow creatures. How were these multitudinous creatures collected, recorded, and named? When, and by whom? Here a distinguished historian of science tells the story of the modern discovery of biodiversity. Robert Kohler argues that the work begun by Linnaeus culminated around 1900, when collecting and inventory were organized on a grand scale in natural history survey. | ||
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