The American Development of Biology / Ronald Rainger, Jane Maienschein, Keith R. Benson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benson, Keith R., Editor.

Maienschein, Jane, Editor.

Rainger, Ronald, Editor.

American Society of Zoologists.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--United States--History--Congresses.

Biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.) : 4 illus.

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Selected as one of the Best "Sci-Tech" Books of 1988 by Library Journal The essays 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Introduction

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

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?

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 Β. Goldschmidt, and the Attempt to Reconcile Embryology and Genetics

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781512805789

1512805785

OCLC:

979631378