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Biology, by Edmund Beecher Wilson
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Title: Biology A lecture delivered at Columbia University in the series on Science, Philosophy and Art November 20, 1907
Author: Edmund Beecher Wilson
Release Date: July 26, 2006 [EBook #18911]
Language: English
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BIOLOGY
BY
EDMUND BEECHER WILSON PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS 1908
BIOLOGY
A LECTURE DELIVERED AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE SERIES ON SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND ART NOVEMBER 20, 1907
BIOLOGY
BY
EDMUND BEECHER WILSON PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS 1908
COPYRIGHT, 1908, by THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Set up, and published March, 1908.
BIOLOGY
I must at the outset remark that among the many sciences that are occupied with the study of the living world there is no one that may properly lay exclusive claim to the name of Biology. The word does not, in fact, denote any particular scien