Green laurels
Subtitle: the lives and achievements of the great naturalists
By: [by] Donald Culross Peattie
Publisher: Literary Guild
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Biography; Science; Botany; Biology; Biographies as Topic; Naturalists
Notes: Bibliography: p. 351-358.
Table of contents: title: Schoolmen and herbalists; title: The lens turned on life; title: Science at court : Buffon and Réaumur; title: The green world opens; title: The life work of Linnaeus; title: Glories and follies of the Linnean age; title: A chevalier in science : Lamarck; title: Anatomist against dreamer : Cuvier and Lamarck; title: Wilderness plantsmen : Bartram and Michaux; title: Wilderness birdsmen : Wilson and Audubon; title: Frontier utopians : Say, Rafinesque, and others; title: Rose spectacles : Goethe and the romanticists; title: Ultimate isles : Darwin and Wallace; title: Darwinism and the man behind it; title: Fabre and the epic commplace.