Profiles men and women who have been prominent in the field of natural history, including John James Audubon, Charles Darwin, John Muir, John Burroughs, Anna Comstock, Theodore Roosevelt, and Rachel Carson.
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Includes index.
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John and William Bartram, Carl Linnaeus, Georges Buffon, Jean Baptiste Lamarck, Alexander Wilson, Georges Cuvier, Alexander von Humboldt, John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), John James Audubon, Thomas Nuttall, Thomas Say, Charles Lyell, George Perkins Marsh, Louis Agassiz, Charles Darwin, Asa Gray, Henry David Thoreau, Alfred Russel Wallace, John Wesley Powell, John Burroughs, John Muir, George Bird Grinnell, William Temple Hornaday, Anna Botsford Comstock, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Thompson Seton, George Washington Carver, Gifford Pinchot, Enos Mills, Ann Haven Morgan, Benton MacKaye, Aldo Leopold, Grey Owl (Archibald Belaney), Olaus and Margaret Murie, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Louis Bromfield, Katharine Ordway, Rachel Carson, Miriam Rothschild, David Brower, Farley Mowat, Gerald Durrell, Jane Goodall, Wendell Berry.