Methods of study in natural history
1886
"The series of papers collected in this volume may be considered as a complement ... to my 'Essay on classification'... These chapters were first embodied in a course of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston."--Pref., p. [iii]-vi First printed in the Atlantic monthly, with the exception of the last chapter 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 SCDIRB copy 39088011567427 is the gift of David H. DeVorkin SCDIRB copy has bookplate: The Norman Williams Public Library ... received April, 1887. Stamped "Discarded." SCDIRB copy has a bookseller's label on front free endpaper: Estes & Lauriat, new & old books, Boston SCDIRB copy has the publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine, gray endpapers, and top edge gilt
