Hewett Cottrell Watson
Subtitle: Victorian Plant Ecologist and Evolutionist (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780754608622
Subjects: Biography: general; Botany & plant sciences; History of science; Plants; Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; History; Biography / Autobiography; Plant ecology; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; General; Watson, Hewett Cottrell; Watson, Hewett Cottrell,; 1804-1881; Biography; Evolution; Plant ecologists
First sentence: During the Victorian era, science changed from a largely part-time amateur activity during the 1820s into a highly professional enterprise by the 1870s.