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    <title>Field notes on science &amp; nature</title>
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    <namePart>Canfield, Michael R.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Harvard University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2011</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xiii, 297 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.)</extent>
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  <abstract>Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their natural habitat, this book allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Foreword / Edward O. Wilson -- Introduction / Michael R. Canfield -- The pleasure of observing / George B. Schaller -- Untangling the bank / Bernd Heinrich -- One and a half cheers for list-keeping / Kenn Kaufman -- A reflection of the truth / Roger Kitching -- Linking researchers across generations / Anna K. Behrensmeyer -- The spoken and the unspoken / Karen L. Kramer -- In the eye of the beholder / Jonathan Kingdon -- Why sketch? / Jenny Keller -- The evolution and fate of botanical field books / James L. Reveal -- Note-taking for pencilophobes / Piotr Naskrecki -- Letters to the future / John D. Perrine and James L. Patton -- Why keep a field notebook? / Erick Greene.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Michael R. Canfield.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>Biology</topic>
    <topic>Fieldwork</topic>
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    <topic>Fieldwork</topic>
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    <topic>Note-taking</topic>
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