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Reading the shape of nature : comparative zoology at the Agassiz Museum / Mary P. Winsor.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	0226902153 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0226902145 (hard : alk. paper)
Author	Winsor, Mary P (author)
Title	Reading the shape of nature : comparative zoology at the Agassiz Museum / Mary P. Winsor.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Description	xviii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Science and its conceptual foundations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-315) and index.
Contents	1. "In the Prime of His Admirable Manhood" -- 2. "I Have Been Disappointed in My Collaborators" -- 3. "Our Work Must Be Done with Much More Precision" -- 4. "An Object Worthy of a Life's Devotion" -- 5. "The Many Plans Started by My Father" -- 6. "Shall We Say 'Ignorabimus,' or Chase a Phantom?" -- 7. "The Slender Thread Is Practically Severed" -- 8. "Results Unattainable by Museum Study Alone" -- 9. "Collections Never of Use to Anyone" -- 10. "Dependent on the Personal Feelings of the Authors" -- 11. "I Made Up My Mind That Very Day to Be Director".
Subjects	Agassiz, Alexander, -- 1835-1910
	Agassiz, Louis, -- 1807-1873
	Barbour, Thomas, -- 1884-1946
	Harvard University. -- Museum of Comparative Zoology
	Zoology -- Classification
	Animals -- Classification
	Natural history -- Classification
	Naturalists -- United States
Series	Science and its conceptual foundations
Call number	2022.041

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A00954205	2022.041	General Collection		. Available to Museum Staff .