Open AccessGeorges Cuvier: Annotated Bibliography of His Published Works, edited by Jean Chandler Smith, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1993
Author(s) -
Douglas R. Givens
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
bulletin of the history of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2047-6930
pISSN - 1062-4740
DOI - 10.5334/bha.03108
Subject(s) - encyclopedia , index (typography) , history , subject (documents) , documentation , institution , library science , art history , classics , sociology , computer science , social science , world wide web , programming language
For those who are interested in the intellectual development of theideas of Georges Cuvier, this volume will go a long way to satisfy that interest. Theeditor has arranged all Cuvier's published source material in a series of bothconvenient as well as documentary "stages" that will aid the researcher in looking uppublished bibliographic references. The book is organized along the following types ofdocumentation: Journals (records I-S6,6) Annual Review of Science (records S67-6S2),monographs (records 653-823), Contributions to Encyclopedias (records 824-908). Thevolume contains a chronology of Cuvier's life, a forward by Stephen Jay GeuId, randomstatistical notes, a personal name index, and a subject index. The volume is extremelywell organized and it is easy to use. The editor has done a fine job of pulling togetherthe Cuvier's published materials from disparate sources. The researcher interested inCuvier's work will find this volume indispensible