American Development of Biology

RONALD RAINGER is an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University. He has published a number of articles on the history of anthropology and paleontology and is the author of An Agenda for Antiquity: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890–1935.KEITH R. BENSON is an associate professor of medical history and ethics at the University of Washington. He has published papers on biology at Johns Hopkins University, the American natural history tradition, and the history of marine biology.JANE MAIENSCHEIN is a professor of philosophy and zoology at Arizona State University. She is the editor of Defining Biology: Lectures from the 1890's and has recently completed Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880–1915.

• FrontmatterContentsContributorsPrefaceIntroductionPart One. Natural History to Biology1. Museums on Campus: A Tradition of Inquiry and Teaching2. From Museum Research to Laboratory Research: The Transformation of Natural History into Academic BiologyPart Two. Centers of Cooperation3. Organizing Biology: The American Society of Naturalists and its "Affiliated Societies," 1883-19234. Summer Resort and Scientific Discipline: Woods Hole and the Structure of American Biology, 1882-19255. Whitman at Chicago: Establishing a Chicago Style of Biology?Part Three. Working at the Boundaries of Biology6. Charles Otis Whitman, Wallace Craig, and the Biological Study of Animal Behavior in the United States, 1898-19257. Vertebrate Paleontology as Biology: Henry Fairfield Osborn and the American Museum of Natural History8. Organism and Environment: Frederic Clements's Vision of a Unified Physiological Ecology9. Mendel in America: Theory and Practice, 1900-191910. Cellular Politics: Ernest Everett Just, Richard B. Goldschmidt, and the Attempt to Reconcile Embryology and GeneticsBibliographyIndex

Intelligently 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)