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By far the best work on this central figure in the history of American biology. -- Stephen Jay Gould

Table of Contents

1. The Formative Years 1807-1827
2. The Making of a Naturalist 1827-1832
3. From Switzerland to Boston 1832-1846
4. The American Welcome 1846-1850
5. Naturalist to America 1850-1857
6. Building a Museum 1857-1861
7. Agassiz, Darwin, and Transmutation 1859-1861
8. The Trials of a Public Man 1861-1866
9. The Past and the present 1866-1873
Epilogue to the New Edition 1988
Notes
Essay on Sources
Rcent Sources
Index

About the Author

Edward Lurie is professor of history, science, and culture at the University of Delaware and senior research fellow at the Hagley Museum and Library. He is the author of Nature and the American Mind and The Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.

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By far the best work on this central figure in the history of American biology.--Stephen Jay Gould

"By far the best work on this central figure in the history of American biology." -- Stephen Jay Gould