Author: Daniel Lewis
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300183453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
"Long forgotten, the Smithsonian Institution's first curator of birds, Robert Ridgway, is one of America's most important scientists. This book centers itself around a biographical treatment of Ridgway, but even more important considers what it meant to be a professional and an amateur in biology in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and shows how the field of ornithology was professionalized as evolutionary theory made its mark on the study of birds"--Provided by publisher.
The Feathery Tribe
Author: Daniel Lewis
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300183453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
"Long forgotten, the Smithsonian Institution's first curator of birds, Robert Ridgway, is one of America's most important scientists. This book centers itself around a biographical treatment of Ridgway, but even more important considers what it meant to be a professional and an amateur in biology in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and shows how the field of ornithology was professionalized as evolutionary theory made its mark on the study of birds"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300183453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
"Long forgotten, the Smithsonian Institution's first curator of birds, Robert Ridgway, is one of America's most important scientists. This book centers itself around a biographical treatment of Ridgway, but even more important considers what it meant to be a professional and an amateur in biology in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and shows how the field of ornithology was professionalized as evolutionary theory made its mark on the study of birds"--Provided by publisher.
The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes
Author: Hubert Bancroft
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040618840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1555
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040618840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1555
Book Description
The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America: Wild tribes. 1874
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Extensive anthropological, ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and historical work on the Indians of the North, Central, and South Americas and, in North America, as far east as the Mississippi Valley.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Extensive anthropological, ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and historical work on the Indians of the North, Central, and South Americas and, in North America, as far east as the Mississippi Valley.
Birders of Africa
Author: Nancy J. Jacobs
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300209614
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- N -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300209614
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- N -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
A Mental Museum, for the Rising Generation
Author: Jesse Torrey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Animal Motifs in Asian Art
Author: Katherine M. Ball
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486147304
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Highly readable authoritative reference, rich with sidelights from literature and legend, explains animal symbolism in art of the Far East. The 673 black-and-white illustrations depict dragons, tigers, bats, butterflies, elephants, and other creatures.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486147304
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Highly readable authoritative reference, rich with sidelights from literature and legend, explains animal symbolism in art of the Far East. The 673 black-and-white illustrations depict dragons, tigers, bats, butterflies, elephants, and other creatures.
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Author: Iowa State Horticultural Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Report of the Iowa State Horticultural Society ...
Author: Iowa State Horticultural Society
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Annual Report
Author: Iowa State Horticultural Society, Des Moines
Publisher:
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Category : Horticultural societies
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horticultural societies
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Pacific Medical Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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