Natural history as stamp collecting: a brief history

Archives of Natural History

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 244-258

  Johnson, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

Author keywords

collections; ecology; museums; professionalization; scientific method; systematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952305218     PISSN: 02609541     EISSN: 17556260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/anh.2007.34.2.244     Document Type: Article

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