Reading the Shape of Nature : Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum.

Reading the Shape of Nature : Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum.

Reading the Shape of Nature vividly recounts the turbulent early history of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and the contrasting careers of its founder Louis Agassiz and his son Alexander. Through the story of this institution and the individuals who formed it, Mary P. Winsor explores th...

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Main Author: Winsor, Mary P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Series:Science and Its Conceptual Foundations S.
Subjects:
Agassiz, Louis, > 1807-1873.
Agassiz, Alexander, > 1835-1910.
Barbour, Thomas, > 1884-1946.
Harvard University. > Museum of Comparative Zoology > History.
Animals > Classification > History.
Natural history > Classification > History.
Naturalists > United States > Biography.
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