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Bibliographia zoologiae et geologiae, A General Catalogue of All Books, Tracts, and Memoirs on Zoology and Geology, Louis Agassiz, Edited by H. E. Strickland, Volume 4

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Bibliographia zoologiae et geologiae, A General Catalogue of All Books, Tracts, and Memoirs on Zoology and Geology, Louis Agassiz, Edited by H. E. Strickland, Volume 4

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bibliographia zoologiae et geologiae

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1097150023

Responsibility statement

Louis Agassiz, Edited by H. E. Strickland

Series statement

Cambridge library collection. Physical sciencesCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

A General Catalogue of All Books, Tracts, and Memoirs on Zoology and Geology

Summary

Born in Switzerland, Louis Agassiz (1807–73) distinguished himself as one of the most capable and industrious naturalists of the nineteenth century, working in fields as diverse as ichthyology and glaciology. In the late 1840s, he moved to North America, where he became a professor of zoology at Harvard and established the Museum of Comparative Zoology. His extensive bibliography of all known works relating to zoology and geology, which he had compiled for private use, was revised and substantially expanded by the English naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811–53) and published by the Ray Society in four volumes between 1848 and 1854. As such, it stands as the fullest record of the existing scientific literature just prior to the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Volume 4 (1854), completed by Sir William Jardine (1800–74) after the death of Strickland, concludes the list of works, arranged alphabetically by author, ranging here from Naccari to Zwinger.--, Provided by publisher

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