The American development of biology
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The American development of biology
Rutgers University Press, 1991, c1988
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Based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories, Sept. 1986, commissioned by the American Society of Zoologists to celebrate its centenary
"First published in cloth by the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-364) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The papers in this volume represent original work to celebrate the centenary of the American Society of Zoologists. They illustrate the impressive nature of historical scholarship that has subsequently focused on the development of biology in the United States.
Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Part One. Natural History to Biology
1. Museums on Campus: A Tradition of Inquiry and Teaching
2. From Museum Research to Laboratory Research: The Transformation of Natural History into Academic Biology
Part Two. Centers of Cooperation
3. Organizing Biology: The American Society of Naturalists and its "Affiliated Societies," 1883-1923
4. Summer Resort and Scientific Discipline: Woods Hole and the Structure of American Biology, 1882-1925
5. Whitman at Chicago: Establishing a Chicago Style of Biology?
Part Three. Working at the Boundaries of Biology
6. Charles Otis Whitman, Wallace Craig, and the Biological Study of Animal Behavior in the United States, 1898-1925
7. Vertebrate Paleontology as Biology: Henry Fairfield Osborn and the American Museum of Natural History
8. Organism and Environment: Frederic Clements's Vision of a Unified Physiological Ecology
9. Mendel in America: Theory and Practice, 1900-1919
10. Cellular Politics: Ernest Everett Just, Richard B. Goldschmidt, and the Attempt to Reconcile Embryology and Genetics
Bibliography
Index
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