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Science 22 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5794, p. 1741
DOI: 10.1126/science.1133639
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Saving American Naturalists from Oblivion

Peder Anker

All Creatures
Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950
by Robert E. Kohler
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. 379 pp. $35, £22.95. ISBN 0-691-12539-2.
Focusing on the 19th- and 20th-century collecting expeditions that governments, museums, and universities sponsored to inventory fauna and flora, the author examines the practical work that produced much of our current inventory of Earth's biota.
The reviewer is at the Forum for University History, University of Oslo, Post Office Box 1008 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway. E-mail: anker{at}ffu.uio.no

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