Finding order in nature: the naturalist tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Octavo, illustrations, paperback.
Traces the development of the naturalist tradition since the Enlightenment and considers its relationship to other research areas in the life sciences. Explores the adventures of early naturalists, the ideas that lay behind classification systems, the development of museums and zoos, and the range of motives that led collectors to collect. A hardcover is also available.