History of biology
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HISTORY OF BIOLOGY
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
The Biology of the Ancients.
Extinction of Scientific Inquiry.
Revival of Knowledge.
PERIOD I.
Characteristics of the Period.
The Revival of Botany.
The Revival of Zoology.
Early Notions of System.
The First English Naturalists.
The Rise of Experimental Physiology.
The Natural History of Distant Lands (Sixteenth Century and Earlier).
Agriculture, Horticulture, and Silk-Culture in the Sixteenth Century.
PERIOD II
Characteristics of the Period.
The Minute Anatomists.
Early Notions about the Nature of Fossils.
Comparative Anatomy: the Study of Biological Types.
Adaptations of Plants and Animals: Natural Theology.
Spontaneous Generation.
The Natural History of John Ray.
The Scale of Nature.
The Sexes of Flowering Plants.
PERIOD III
Characteristics of the Period.
Systems of Flowering Plants: Linnæus and the Jussieus.
Réaumur and the History of Insects.
The Budding-out of New Animals (Hydra): another Form of Propagation without Mating (Aphids).
The Historical or Comparative Method: Montesquieu and Buffon.
Amateur Students of Living Animals.
Intelligence and Instinct in the Lower Animals.
The Food of Green Plants.
The Metamorphoses of Plants.
Early Notions about the Lower Plants.
PERIOD IV
Characteristics of the Period.
Sprengel and the Fertilisation of Flowers.
Cuvier and the Rise of Palæontology.
Chamisso on the Alternation of Generations in Salpa.
Baer and the Development of Animals.
The Cell Theory.
The Enrichment of English Gardens.
Humboldt as a Traveller and a Biologist.
Premonitions of Biological Evolution.
PERIOD V
Period V.
Darwin on the Origin of Species.
Pasteur's Experimental Study of Microbes.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
THE SUB-DIVISIONS OF BIOLOGY
BIBILIOGRAPHY
History of Biology or its Sub-Divisions.
INDEX
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