Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade ReviewIntelligently organized and presented... the essays bespeak the expansion in recent years of the study of the history of biology... beyond the pure history of ideas to include social, economic, and institutional context and its shaping influence on scientific research programs. -- Daniel J. Kevles * Science *
Fills in gap and sets the record straight concerning the diversity, the complexity, and the general richness of biological theory and practice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *
History of science at its modern best. -- W. J. Bynum * Nature *
Table of ContentsFrontmatter
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
