Methods of study in natural history
By: by L. Agassiz
Contributors: Lowell Institute; Norman Williams Public Library (Woodstock, Vt.); Estes & Lauriat; David H. DeVorkin Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) 
Edition: 17th ed.
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Published: 1886
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Copyright date: 1863
Subjects: Coral reefs and islands; Evolution; Animals; Alternating Generations; Classification; Embryology
Other titles: Agassiz's Methods of study in natural history; Atlantic monthly.
Notes: "The series of papers collected in this volume may be considered as a complement ... to my 'Essay on classification'... These chapters were first embodied in a course of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston."--Pref., p. [iii]-vi.

First printed in the Atlantic monthly, with the exception of the last chapter.

SCDIRB copy 39088011567427 is the gift of David H. DeVorkin.

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: The Norman Williams Public Library ... received April, 1887. Stamped "Discarded."

SCDIRB copy has a bookseller's label on front free endpaper: Estes & Lauriat, new & old books, Boston.

SCDIRB copy has the publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine, gray endpapers, and top edge gilt.
Table of contents: title: General sketch of the early progress in natural history; title: Nomenclature and classification; title: Categories of classification; title: Classification and creation; title: Different views respecting orders; title: Gradation among animals; title: Analogous types; title: Family characteristics; title: The characters of genera; title: Species and breeds; title: Formation of coral reefs; title: Age of coral reefs as showing permanence of species; title: Homologies; title: Alternate generations; title: The ovarian egg; title: Embryology and classification.