The American development of biology / Ronald Rainger, Keith R. Benson, Jane Maienschein, editors.
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1988. |
| Description | xii, 380 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Rainger, Ronald, 1949- |
| Other author/creator | Benson, Keith Rodney. |
| Other author/creator | Maienschein, Jane. |
| Other author/creator | American Society of Zoologists. |
| Partial contents | 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. |
| Partial contents | 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. |
| General note | Based of 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-364) and index. |
| Acquisitions source | Laupus- Karel B. Absolon History of Medicine Library |
| LCCN | 88000170 |
| ISBN | 081228092X |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laupus | Books - Stacks | QH 301 A512 1988 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |