Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This slim book, graced with beautiful facsimile reproductions of gorgeous paleontological folio art, is a treasure trove of vertebrate paleontological history, sacred and arcane."
* The Quarterly Review of Biology *
Patrons of Paleontology is a good introduction to the ambitious individuals and institutions that pursued their own, national, and institutional interests over centuries in a variety of contexts.
* Journal of American History *
Who pays for palaeontological research and why? Patrons of Paleontology will be a useful reference guide for anyone interested in the early history of the subject and some of the social and historical context in which it occurred.
-- Paul Barrett * Priscum, The Newsletter of the Palentological Society *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Cost of Doing Business
1. The Beginnings of Government Support for Paleontology
2. Eighteenth-century and Early Nineteenth-century Paleontologists and Patrons
3. Developments in Government Support for Paleontology in the United States Between 1830 to About 1880
4. Paleontology in Mid Nineteenth-Century Surveys Outside the United States
5. Government Support for Paleontology in the Late Nineteenth Century and the Turn of the Twentieth Century: 1880 to about 1940
Conclusion: The Chain of Paleontology
Appendix: Glossary of Prominent Patrons and Paleontologists
Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Index
