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The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History (Princeton Paperbacks)
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The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History (Princeton Paperbacks) Paperback - 1994

by David Elliston Allen

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Princeton University Press, 1994. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 270 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches.
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  • Title The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History (Princeton Paperbacks)
  • Author David Elliston Allen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
  • Date 1994
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # __0691036322
  • ISBN 9780691036328 / 0691036322
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.11 x 0.75 in (23.42 x 15.52 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Natural history - Great Britain - History, Naturalists - Great Britain - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93043900
  • Dewey Decimal Code 508.410

From the rear cover

The author traces the evolution of natural history from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the 'herbalizings' of apprentice apothecaries to the establishment of national reserves and international societies to the emergence of natural history as an organized discipline.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 03/01/1995, Page 0

About the author

David Elliston Allen is coordinator of the History of Medicine Program of The Wellcome Trust. He is also Honorary Lecturer in the History of the Life Sciences, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, and teaches at the University College, London.