Stuffing birds, pressing plants, shaping knowledge: Natural history in North America, 1730-1860

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Prince, Sue Ann ^a  

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EID: 60949511861     PISSN: 00659746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20020347     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Andrew Lewis, "The Curious and the Learned: Natural History in the Early American Republic" (Yale University, 2001), 20.
2. Benjamin Smith Barton, "A Memoir Concerning the Fascinating Faculty which has been Ascribed to the Rattle-Snake, and Other American Serpents" in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge, vol. IV (Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobs): 72-113.
3. Charles Willson Peale, "Introduction to a Course of Lectures on Natural History, Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania," Nov. 16, 1799 (Philadelphia, 1800), 10-12.
4. Benjamin Smith Barton, A Discourse on some of the Principal Desiderata in Natural History, and on the Best Means of Promoting the Study of this Science in the United States, a lecture presented to the Linnaean Society of Philadelphia on 10 June 1807 (Philadelphia: Printed by Denham & Town, 1807), 10.