Naturalists of the frontier
By: by Samuel Wood Geiser; with a foreword by Herbert Spencer Jennings.
Publisher: Southern Methodist University
Published: 1937
Place of publication: [Dallas]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Naturalists.; Natural history -- Texas.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.
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Notes: Illustrated lining-papers.
Biographical sketches of ten Texan naturalists from 1820 to about 1880. cf. Chapter I.
"Published on the Schoellkopf fund."
Table of contents: title: The naturalist on the frontier.; title: Jacob Boll.; title: In defense of Jean Louis Berlandier.; title: Thomas Drummond.; title: Louis Cachand Ervendberg.; title: Ferdinand Jakob Lindheimer.; title: Ferdinand von Roemer, and his travels in Texas.; title: Charles Wright.; title: Gideon Lincecum.; title: Julien Reverchon.; title: Gustaf Wilhelm Belgrage.; title: Principal sources of the foregoing chapters (p. 309-316); title: A partial list of naturalists and collectors in Texas, 1820-1880.