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All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850–1950. By Robert E. Kohler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xiii + 363 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, index. Cloth $35.00.

Our changing understanding of the biogeography of the continent forms an important element in American environmental history, and this concise and well-researched account of American natural history surveys from 1880 to about 1930 fills an important gap in that story. Describing the rise and fall of the intensive field survey as a tool of field biology through this half-century and placing it in the context of American society and American science, it constitutes essential reading for environmental historians concerned with Americans' knowledge of the land and science's role in shaping their ideas about nature. . . .

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