A concise history of ornithology /
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| Author / Creator: | Walters, Michael. |
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003. |
| Description: | 255 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5150645 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Early Times
- Ch. 2. The Renaissance of Ornithology
- Ch. 3. Eighteenth Century Systems: Linnaeus, Brisson & Buffon, and Their Legacy
- Ch. 4. Pallas and the New Awakening
- Ch. 5. Explorations of the Eighteenth Century
- Ch. 6. The Germans and The Dutch
- Ch. 7. The Beginnings of American Ornithology
- Ch. 8. The Quinary and other Nineteenth Century Systems
- Ch. 9. New Theories, and Explanations in the Far East
- Ch. 10. The Turn of the Nineteenth Century and the Introduction of Trinomials
- Ornithology and Ornithologists in the Twentieth Century / John Coulson
- App. 1-30. (systems of classification).
