By Richard Dawkins
ISBN-10: 0393304485
ISBN-13: 9780393304480
A lively and readable protection of Darwinism which leaps without difficulty from the primeval soup to lengthy rows of taxonomy. Deep adequate to be beneficial to biologists, but easy and well-written so that it will entice a mass viewers. Illustrated.
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Others are bundled with crinkled silver ribbons and sequins in order to form a chain of droopy bows. Clusters of metallic ropes alternate with cascades of bows along the length of the fringe. General Artemas Ward House Museum. hings in Place 37 were not always what they seemed. Also on display was a framed military epaulet belonging to Major General Artemas Ward, Washington’s immediate predecessor by virtue of being the ranking oicer in the New England militias at the outbreak of hostilities with colonial authorities in 1775.
Harvard has no technology museums as such devoted to mining or the textile industry, or chock a block with steam engines, but it does have two specialized historical museums that focus on science, engineering, medicine, and the tools of these trades—the Collection of Historical Scientiic Instruments and the Warren Anatomical Museum of the Center for the History of Medicine. For our purposes, we have put these institutions under Goode’s category E. Goode excluded books and manuscripts from his schema, treating libraries as a diferent kind of collection entirely.
His father, Oliver Ames, a former governor of Massachusetts, had an interest in botany. Ames graduated from Harvard in 1898, joining the faculty in 1899. 51 Ames devoted his career at Harvard to Orchidaceae, irst in the Botanic Garden (1899–1922), then as curator and later director of the Botanic Museum (1923–45). He simultaneously held faculty positions, rising to Arnold Professor of Botany in 1932. He retired from the faculty in 1941 and the Botanic Museum in 1945. 52 he Western study of orchids had long been a ield of jealously guarded knowledge and reputation.
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