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.
Cassell's Natural History. The Feathered Tribes
Zoology
Author: William Benjamin Carpenter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Double-Crested Cormorant
Author: Linda R. Wires
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187114
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Explores the roots of the human-cormorant conflict and assesses the federal policies that have been developed to manage the bird's population in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187114
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Explores the roots of the human-cormorant conflict and assesses the federal policies that have been developed to manage the bird's population in the twenty-first century.
A Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages
Author: Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385105188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385105188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The British Flora
Author: Sir William Jackson Hooker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
An Open Letter,-No. 4-
Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscences
Author: Rudolph Menger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Folk-tales of Angola
Author: Héli Chatelain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs, Kimbundu
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs, Kimbundu
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America: Wild tribes. 1874
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher:
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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.