A notable exception to such investigations by Americans was William Bartram's Travels (1791), which was based on field work in a large part of what is now the southeastern United States. More Americans became interested in the scientific study of the biota...
Ichthyology, scientific study of fishes, including, as is usual with a science that is concerned with a large group of organisms, a number of specialized subdisciplines: e.g., taxonomy, anatomy (or morphology), behavioral science (ethology), ecology, and