A glorious enterprise : the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the making of American science Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud ; photographs by Rosamond Purcell

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peck, Robert McCracken, 1952-

Contributor:

Stroud, Patricia Tyson.

Purcell, Rosamond Wolff.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia--History.

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

Natural history--Research--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Natural history.

Physical Description:

xvii, 437 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.

Contents:

A gathering of gentlemen : the founding and early years

The lure of the West : exploration and exodus

A widening sphere

The American woodsman comes calling : John James Audubon and the academy

The American Golgotha : defining race in the early republic

Gorillas grab the limelight : Paul Du Chaillu, John Cassin, and the professionalization of science

The marvelous bipedal masterpiece : religion, politics, and public display

Fossils, finders, and feuds : Leidy, Hayden, Cope, and Marsh

"I must have fame" : Robert Peary explores the Arctic

Early man at the academy

Volcanoes to caverns : exploring for minerals

Academy expeditions, 1928 to 1960

Dioramas defy the Great Depression

Science and celebrity : the academy goes Hollywood

Visions in microscopes : water quality and the environment

Regrouping and looking forward in the postwar years

Reaching out : festivals and friends

The academy's "glorious enterprise" completes its second century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Graphics: Watercolor, "Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in Arch Street between 2 0/11 and Front North Side in 1817" David J. Kennedy watercolors [V61], call # K: 1- 7 (page 32)

ISBN:

9780812243802 (alk. paper)

0812243803 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

748286971