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The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

Creator:

Koroloff, Rachel

Abstract:

Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
The Ibis, journal of the British Ornithologists' Union : a pre-synthesis portrait

Creator:

Johnson, Kristin Renee

Abstract:

In 1959 the British Ornithological journal, The Ibis, published a centenary commemorative volume on the history of ornithology in Britain. Over the previous few decades, the contributors to this volume had helped focus the attention of ornithologists on the methods, priorities, and problems of modem biology, specifically the theory ofevolution...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

Entwicklung Der Ornithologie von Aristoteles his mr Gegenwart, (Berlin: F.W. Peters, 1951); Maurice Boubier