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The American development of biology
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The American development of biology

Author: Ronald Rainger; Keith Rodney Benson; Jane Maienschein; American Society of Zoologists.
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1988.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : English
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ronald Rainger; Keith Rodney Benson; Jane Maienschein; American Society of Zoologists.
ISBN: 081228092X 9780812280920
OCLC Number: 17509080
Notes: 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.
Description: xii, 380 p. ; 24 cm.
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. 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.
Responsibility: Ronald Rainger, Keith R. Benson, Jane Maienschein, editors.

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