The American development of biology [Text]
- Title:
- The American development of biology
- Creator:
- Rainger, Ronald
- Contributor(s):
- Benson, Keith Rodney -- Maienschein, Jane
- Summary:
- xii, 380 p
Resource type: Book (edited)
Museums on campus : a tradition of inquiry and teaching / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt -- From museum research to laboratory research : the transformation of natural history into academic biology / Keith R. Benson -- Organizing biology : the American Society of Naturalists and its "affiliated societies," 1883-1923 / Toby A. Appel -- Summer resort and scientific discipline : Woods Hole and the structure of American biology, 1882-1925 / Philip J. Pauly -- Whitman at Chicago : establishing a Chicago style of biology? / Jane Maienschein -- Charles Otis Whitman, Wallace Craig, and the biological study of animal behavior in the United States, 1898-1925 / Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr. Vertebrate paleontology as biology : Henry Fairfield Osborn and the American Museum of Natural History / Ronald Rainger -- Organism and environment : Frederic Clement's vision of a unified physiological ecology / Joel B. Hagen -- Mendel in America : theory and practice, 1900-1919 / Diane B. Paul and Barbara A. Kimmelman -- Cellular politics : Ernest Everett Just, Richard B. Goldschmidt, and the attempt to reconcile embryology and genetics / Scott F. Gilbert.
Reissued 1991 by Rutgers University Press, ISBN 0813517028, 9780813517025.
Call number: LC: QH305.2.U6
Call number: Dewey: 574/.0973
Call number: NLM: QH 305.2.U5
Call number: NAL: QH305.2.U6A54
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-364) and index. - Subject(s):
- Biology -- United States -- History -- Congresses; Biology -- history -- United States -- Congresses; Biologie -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- Congrès; Conference publication
- Language(s):
- English
- Date(s):
- 1988
- Type(s):
- Text
- Identifier(s):
- isbn:081228092X; isbn:9780812280920; isbn:0813517028; isbn:9780813517025; Find in a Library; LCCN:88-170; asulib:125150