Ordering life : Karl Jordan and the naturalist tradition / Kristin Johnson.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

viii, 376 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-365) and index.

Joining the naturalist tradition -- Reforming entomology -- Ordering beetles, butterflies, and moths -- Ordering naturalists -- A descent into disorder -- Taxonomy in a changed world -- The ruin of war and the synthesis of biology -- Naturalists in a changed landscape.