History of Biology, by L. C. Miall, D.Sc., F.R.S
by L. C. Miall
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About this eBook
- Author
- Miall, L. C. (Louis Compton), 1842-1921
- Title
- History of biology
- Credits
- Produced by Jwala Kumar Sista, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Biology -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 58109
- Release Date
- October 16, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.HISTORY OF BIOLOGY
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.INTRODUCTION — The Biology of the Ancients. — Extinction of Scientific Inquiry. — Revival of Knowledge.
- 5.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.
- 6.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.
- 7.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.
- 8.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.
- 9.PERIOD V — Period V. — Darwin on the Origin of Species. — Pasteur's Experimental Study of Microbes.
- 10.CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
- 11.THE SUB-DIVISIONS OF BIOLOGY
- 12.BIBILIOGRAPHY — History of Biology or its Sub-Divisions.
- 13.INDEX
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