Naturalists of the frontier
Title:
Naturalists of the frontier
Author:
Geiser, Samuel Wood, 1890-1983.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
[Dallas] : Southern Methodist University, 1937.
Physical Description:
341 pages : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations (maps) ; 24 cm
General Note:
Illustrated lining-papers.
Biographical sketches of ten Texan naturalists from 1820 to about 1880. cf. Chapter I.
"Published on the Schoellkopf fund."
Language:
English
Contents:
The naturalist on the frontier.--Jacob Boll.--In defense of Jean Louis Berlandier.--Thomas Drummond.--Louis Cachand Ervendberg.--Ferdinand Jakob Lindheimer.--Ferdinand von Roemer, and his travels in Texas.--Charles Wright.--Gideon Lincecum.--Julien Reverchon.--Gustaf Wilhelm Belgrage.--Principal sources of the foregoing chapters (p. 309-316)--A partial list of naturalists and collectors in Texas, 1820-1880.
Format :
Book