An edition of Green Laurels
(1936)
Green Laurels
the lives and achievements of the great naturalists
by Donald Culross Peattie
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The lives and achievements of the great naturalists, from medieval herbalists to Charles Darwin and Jean-Henri Fabre.
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Green laurels: the lives and achievements of the great naturalists
1938, Garden City publishing co., inc.
in English
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Green laurels: the lives and achievements of the great naturalists.
1938, Garden City Publishing
in English
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Green Laurels: the lives and achievements of the great naturalists
1936, Simon and Schuster
in English
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Table of Contents
Schoolmen and herbalists
The lens turned on life
Science at court -Buffon and Réaumur
The green world opens
The life work of Linnaeus
Glories and follies of the Linnaean age
A chevalier in science: Lamarck
Anatomist against dreamer: Cuvier and Lamarck
Wilderness plantsmen: Bartram and Michaux
Wilderness birdsmen: Wilson and Audubon
Frontier Utopians: Say, Rafinesque, and others
Rose spectacles: Goethe and the romanticists
Ultimate isles: Darwin and Wallace
Darwinism and the man behind it
Fabre and the epic commonplace
Edition Notes
"Sources and reference material": p. [349]-358.
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