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01876aam a2200325 a 4500 001 05E335006D6F11E0B3C4FDE36AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20181009010727 008 100629s2011 nyua b 001 0ceng 010 $a 2010024532 020 $a 0393068544 020 $a 9780393068542 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d UKM $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d IH9 $d C#P $d BWX $d NLGGC $d CDX $d LML $d MNW $d OBE $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QH26 $b .C66 2011 100 1 $a Conniff, Richard, $d 1951- 245 1 $a The species seekers : $b heroes, fools, and the mad pursuit of life on Earth / $c Richard Conniff. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton, $c c2011. 300 $a x, 464 p. : $b ill. ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-434) and index. 505 0 $a Strange things, strange lands -- That great beast of a town -- Finding the thread -- Collecting and conquest -- Mad about shells -- Extinct -- The rising -- The river rolling westward -- "If they lost their skalps" -- The burden of specimens -- Arsenic and immortality -- "Am I not a man and a brother?" -- Craniological longings -- "A fool to nature" -- The world turned upside down -- A primate named Savage -- "Species men" -- "Labourer in the field" -- The slow power of natural forces -- The gorilla war -- Big noses and short tea-drinkers -- Industrial-scale natural history -- "The blessing of a good skirt" -- The beast in the mosquito -- "Why not try the experiment?" -- The new age of discovery -- Necrology. 650 0 $a Naturalists $v Biography. 650 0 $a Natural history $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Life (Biology) $x History $x History $y 18th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20160407020547.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20110423010516.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=05E335006D6F11E0B3C4FDE36AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search