Title: Green laurels; the lives and achievements of the great naturalists
Authors: Peattie, Donald Culross, 1898-1964
Publisher: Literary Guild
Year: 1936
Subjects: Biography; Science; Botany; Biology; Biographies as Topic; Naturalists
Contents: Schoolmen and herbalists -- The lens turned on life -- Science at court : Buffon and Réaumur -- The green world opens -- The life work of Linnaeus -- Glories and follies of the Linnean age -- A chevalier in science : Lamarck -- Anatomist against dreamer : Cuvier and Lamarck -- Wilderness plantsmen : Bartram and Michaux -- Wilderness birdsmen : Wilson and Audubon -- Frontier utopians : Say, Rafinesque, and others -- Rose spectacles : Goethe and the romanticists -- Ultimate isles : Darwin and Wallace -- Darwinism and the man behind it -- Fabre and the epic commplace.