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If I Am To Be Remembered: Correspondence Of Julian Huxley
175,00 € |
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Verlag: | World Scientific Publishing |
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Veröffentl.: | 01.06.1993 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9789814354684 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 320 |
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Beschreibungen
With a foreword by S ZuckermanThe First Julian Huxley Memorial Lecture by J NeedhamSir Julian Huxley was especially noted for his versatility - great biologist, first Director-General of UNESCO, Director of the London Zoo, bird watcher, skilled popular writer of science and a tireless champion of wildlife conservation. This book is a biographical account of Huxley as revealed through his own correspondence and the correspondence of his great contemporaries. An introductory biographical summary is followed by his and others' letters and a collection of some of his writings. A complete bibliography of Huxley is included. The book would be of great interest to all biologists, students of the United Nations, historians of science and nature conservationists.