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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BEGINNINGS NATURAL HISTORY AMER ICA. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE SIXTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. By G. BROWN GOODE, PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY. From the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Volume III, 1884-1886. Washington: Printed For The Society. 1886. THE BEGINNINGS OF NATURAL HISTORY IN AMERICA. By G. Brown Goodk. Is not Science a growth? Has not Science its embryology? And must not a neglect of its embryology lead to a misunderstanding of the principles of its evolution and of its existing organization? ?SPENCER: The Genesis of Science. Analysis. I. Thomas Harriott, the earliest English naturalist in America. . 35 II Harriott's Spanish and French predecessors and contemporaries. 44 III. Garcilasso de la Vega and the biological lore of the native Americans. ......... 40. IV. Anglo-American Naturalists of the seventeenth century. . 55 V. European explorations in the new world, 1600-1800., 67 VI. The founders of American Natural History. .... 74 VII. The debt which the naturalists of the present owe to those of the past 101 Three centuries ago the only English settlement in America was the little colony of one hundred and eight men which Raleigh had planted, five months before, upon Roanoke Island, in North Carolina. The 17th of August, 1885, was the anniversary of one of the most noteworthy events in the history of America, for it marked the three hundredth return of the date when Sir Richard Grenville brought to its shores this sturdy company of pioneers, who, by their sojourn on this side of the Atlantic, prepared the way for the great armies of immigrants who were to follow. Annual presidential address delivered at the Sixth Anniversary Meeting...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217192873 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217192874 |
| Weight | 0.22 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.14 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 58 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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