“The disadvantages of a defective education”: identity, experiment and persuasion in the natural history of the salmon and parr controversy, c. 1825–1850
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DOI: 10.1017/s0269889719000255
Abstract: Argument During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, an argument raged about the identity of a small freshwater fish: was the parr a distinct species, or merely the young of the salmon? This “Parr… read more here.
Keywords: controversy; parr; salmon parr; parr controversy ... See more keywords