Cuvier, George Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron
Cuvier, George Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron (1769–1832) French comparative anatomist, who became professor at the Collège de France in 1799, moving in 1802 to the Jardin de Plantes. Cuvier extended the classification system of
Linnaeus, adding the category
phylum (of which he recognized four in the animal kingdom) and concentrating on the taxonomy of fishes. He also initiated the classification of fossils and established the science of palaeontology.
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Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing
Magazine article from: Journalism History; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Kennedy, Samuel V. III. Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse...years, but after that a man should move along." That was Samuel Hopkins Adams's advice in a 1945 book review, and he tried to follow...
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ROCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY HOSTS LECTURE ON SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/31/2007; 322 words
; ...m., Sun., Nov. 4 as he discusses the career of Samuel Hopkins Adams, a Rochester resident who became one of America's top investigative reporters. Adams' crusade against "snake oil salesmen" resulted in...
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Harriet Tubman, pre-mummification.(Flashback: To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child--Cicero)(Biography)
Magazine article from: The American Enterprise; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...that Harriet met a boy named Samuel Hopkins Adams. The fortunate son of a notably...could have handled it better." Adams transcribed Tubman's remarks...textbooks. We are lucky that Samuel Hopkins Adams, the young novelist-to-be...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS; EMERSON APPROACHES THE HOLIDAYS WITH SANTA, AMERICANA AND FAITH; CURRIER AND IVES TOUCH MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICA.(Stars)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 12/2/2001; 700+ words
; ...Nast," "Selections From the Samuel Hopkins Adams Collection of Prints by Currier...1891 by novelist and alumnus Samuel Hopkins Adams. Faith-based work Also on...Nast," "Selections From the Samuel Hopkins Adams Collection of Prints by Curri
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Public service or public corruption?(newspapers)
Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Lincoln Steffens, David Graham Phillips, and Samuel Hopkins Adams--battled some of the most powerful institutions...popular vote. Born in 1871 in Dunkirk, New York, Samuel Hopkins Adams became a reporter for the New York Sun newspaper...
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Scholars claim Harding was first Negro president
Newspaper article from: Washington Afro-American; 2/22/1997; 700+ words
; ...educational department of Johns Hopkins University; superintendent of...goes back to 1849, according to Samuel Hopkins Adams, when a slander case came up...millionaire C. E. Harding. Samuel Hopkins Adams in his book "Incredible Era...
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"Doctoring" The Truth: "Snake Oil" & Other Cure-Alls.(history of patent medicines and their influence on society)
Magazine article from: Odyssey; 2/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...death. Yet, as crusading reporter Samuel Hopkins Adams revealed in 1905, the main ingredient...guessed it!) making people drunk! Adams also targeted the unhealthy ingredients...amount of opium in a standard dose. Adams' expose of "cure-alls" and...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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FOR AMERICAN DREAMERS
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 9/13/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Writing Adaption. Based on the story "Night Bus," by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Claudette Colbert plays a discontented heiress who...favorite. With Thomas Mitchell, Lionel Barrymore, and Samuel S. Hinds. Not rated. 125 minutes. Black and white...
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FORMER PROFESSOR AT SU TO SPEAK AT BOYLE CENTER.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 9/1/2001; 292 words
; Samuel V. Kennedy III will speak to the Boyle Center Writing Group at 10 a.m. Sept. 12. Kennedy will talk about Samuel Hopkins Adams, an early 20th century author and magazine writer who lived on Owasco...
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Hearty praise for Harding; Former Nixon aide calls the leader an honorable man
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 1/11/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...was fixed by a wave of unfavorable books, including Samuel Hopkins Adams' "The Incredible Era" and Gaston Means' "The Strange...about them. The standing of Theodore Roosevelt and John Adams both improved greatly as more of their papers became...
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Samuel Hopkins Adams
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Samuel Hopkins Adams 1871-1958, American author, b. Dunkirk...of public health in the United States. Adams also wrote a series of articles for Collier...of the first Pure Food and Drugs Act. Adams was a prolific writer, producing both...
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Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Adams, Samuel Hopkins (1871–1958), journalist and author, from 1900 to 1916 was associated with McClure's , Collier's , and the New...
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Patent-Medicine Advertisements
Book article from: American Decades
...experienced health journalist, Samuel Hopkins Adams, to continue researching patent...improvements. Within a few years Samuel Hopkins Adams was again publishing articles...Food and Drug Act. Sources: Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Great American Fraud...
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Regulating Medicine
Book article from: American Decades
...response to muckraking reporter Samuel Hopkins Adams's expos é s in Collier...the patent medicine market that Adams estimated to be worth $75 million...In 1910, for example, Albert Adams could market his "spondylotherapy...
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What Could We Do about Cancer in 1913?
Book article from: American Decades
...Question in the Medical World," by Samuel Hopkins Adams, famous from the preceding decade...the disease at that time. When Adams asked a group of specialists...amount of good." The task, as Adams framed it, was to educate the...
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