A thoughtful and fascinating Frieze Lecture Series presentation on the man whom many regard as the first environmentalist, the Rock Island Public Library's “Cosmos” & the Work of Alexander von Humboldt will, on November 3, find Augustana College's professor of biology Dr Stephen Hager exploring Humboldt’s holistic observation of all of nature, with special emphasis on the German scientist's 19th-century book Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe.