Reading the shape of nature
Subtitle: comparative zoology at the Agassiz Museum
By: Mary P. Winsor.
Series: Science and its conceptual foundations
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873.; Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910.; Barbour, Thomas, 1884-1946.; Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology -- History.; Animals -- Classification -- History.; Natural history -- Classification -- History.; Naturalists -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Classification; Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-315) and index.