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Katherine Arnold (London School of Economics), "Desire and Desiderata" [chapter from her forthcoming dissertation]
Lynn Nyhart, "Introduction: The Biological Perspective and the Problem of a Modern Nature," in Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany, 1-34.
Recommended supplementary reading:
Paula Findlen and Anna Toledano, "The Materials of Natural History," in Emma Spary, Helen Anne Curry, James Andrew Secord, Nicholas Jardine (eds.), Worlds of Natural History, 151-169.