Title: Natural history
Description: The history of the natural world covers an extraordinarily diverse set of topics. The nineteenth century saw the dawn of the true pedagogical use of natural history for a wide audience. Scientists (a term itself not in use until the early nineteenth century) began to press natural history texts into service as teaching tools for students. At the same time, the literary uses of natural history as a narrative device blossomed into its fullest form to date. The Natural History collection contained in Nineteenth Century Collections Online highlights many key works in this development of the scientific vision of the study of organisms and their environment in the years from 1780 to 1924.
Subjects: Natural history, Indians, Languages, Floriculture