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Author Johnson, Kristin, 1973-

Title Ordering life : Karl Jordan and the naturalist tradition / Kristin Johnson
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Joining the naturalist tradition -- Reforming entomology -- Ordering beetles, butterflies, and moths -- Ordering naturalists -- A descent into disorder -- Taxonomy in a changed world -- The ruin of war and the synthesis of biology -- Naturalists in a changed landscape
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-365) and index
Notes English
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Subject Jordan, Karl, 1861-1959.
SUBJECT Jordan, Karl, 1861-1959 fast
Subject Entomologists -- Biography
Taxonomists -- Biography
Biology -- Classification.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
Biology
Entomologists
Taxonomists
Genre/Form Biographies
Classification
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011048239
ISBN 9781421406008
1421406004
9781421406503
1421406500