The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination 0674673581, 9780674673588

This thoroughly absorbing book on taxonomy captures the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing. As

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The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination
 0674673581, 9780674673588

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