Northeastern Naturalist Volume 8, Special Issue No. 1, 2001

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Front Cover
Inside Front Cover
Board of Editors/indicia page
OPENING REMARKS
Lutz H. Görgens	1
The Hon. Lic. Armando González-Angarita	3
John Silber	5
ARTICLES
Alexander von Humboldt Between Enlightenment and Romanticism Michael Dettelbach	9
Building Humboldt’s Legacy: The Humboldt Memorials of 1869 in Germany Denise Phillips	21
Alexander von Humboldt’s Legacy in Venezuela Gustavo A. Romero-González	33
Alexander von Humboldt’s Visit to Washington and Philadelphia, His Friendship with Jefferson, and His Fascination with the United States Ingo Schwarz	43
Alexander von Humboldt’s Holistic World View and Modern Inter- and Transdisciplinary Ecological Research Otto Fränzle	57
Humboldt und das Meer: Eine Ozeanographiegeschichtliche Bestandsaufnahme Gerhard Kortum	91
The Mountain of the Gods Evan Eisenberg	109
“Hero of Knowledge, Be Our Tribute Thine:” Alexander von Humboldt in Victorian America Laura Dassow Walls	121
Los Pueblos Indigenas del Amazonas Venezolano desde Humboldt a Nuestros Dias: Preservacion del Ambiente Y Manejo Sostenible Geóg. Diógenes Edgildo Palau	135
The Scientist as Weltbürger: Alexander von Humboldt and the Beginning of Cosmopolitics Ottmar Ette	157