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Contributions to the history of North American natural history : papers from the First North American Conference of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 21-23 October 1981 / edited by Alwyne Wheeler.
- Title
- Contributions to the history of North American natural history : papers from the First North American Conference of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 21-23 October 1981 / edited by Alwyne Wheeler.
- Author
- Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. North American Conference (1st : 1981 : Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Publication
- London : The Society, 1983.
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- Additional Authors
- Wheeler, Alwyne C.
- Description
- 97 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Society for the Bibliography of Natural History special publication ; no. 2
- Uniform Title
- Society for the Bibliography of Natural History special publication ; no. 2.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Nina J. Root -- The history of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia / Thomas Peter Bennett -- Natural history in Utopia : the works of Thomas Say and François-André Michaux printed at New Harmony, Indiana / Ian MacPhail -- William Bartram and his travels / Robert McCracken Peck -- Books from the Bartram library / Robert McCracken Peck -- John Gould in America / Gordon C. Sauer -- Thomas Coulter (1793-1843) in North America : some bibliographic problems and some solutions / E. Charles Nelson -- Bibliography and natural history : new sources for the contributions of the American naturalist, Titian Ramsey Peale / Charlotte M. Porter -- Hudson's Bay Company archives 1670-1870 : a reference source for natural historians / Shirlee Anne Smith -- Compiling American geological literature, 1669 to 1850 : a systematic approach to natural history bibliography / Robert M. Hazen, Margaret Hindle Hazen, and Larry W. Finger.
- ISBN
- 0901843059
- OCLC
- 10555491
- SCSB-12059662
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library