| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850–1950. By Robert E. Kohler. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xvi, 363 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-12539-8.)

Robert E. Kohler examines U.S. biological surveys and collecting activity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a study that nicely complements recent books on American biology of that period. He provides an evocative and sympathetic description of the experiences of collectors, both men and women, as he shows us their working methods, passions, and struggles. Of necessity, he has selected a sample from a large population. Those chosen range from well-known career collectors employed by institutions such as the Smithsonian, to less familiar workers who did not establish careers in the field. "Biodiversity" in the title refers to the discovery of new species and not the conservation of biodiversity, which is not this book's subject. Nor does Kohler explore the relation between natural history and religious belief, as the main title suggests.

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