Green Laurels
Subtitle: the lives and achievements of the great naturalists
By: [by] Donald Culross Peattie ...
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Naturalists
Notes: "Sources and reference material": p. [349]-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 Linnaean 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 commonplace