Animal Ecology: With Especial Reference to Insects (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Buffon (1707 to 1788) is pointed out by Lankester as the only promi nent writer on natural history-who could be accorded historic rank in the field of natural history during this early period: Buffon himself Opposed the then orthodox study of the structure and classification of animals, and called attention to the bionomics or inter-relations of organisms. He popularized descriptions of his observations to a certain extent in 44 volumes published. During six years while he was keeper of the royal garden.

Alexander von Humboldt (1764 to a botanist and explorer, laid certain foundations in the field of distribution of organisms in connection with descriptions of Species and the factors of climate and geography affecting them.

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