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Creator:: Allen, Marshall William
Abstract:: This investigation attempts to demonstrate that the development of the early 20th century biological enterprise involved a striving for a unifying theoretical perspective. A skeletal substantiation of this is given by an overview of early 20th century biology in which some biologists began recognizing a multiplicity of different orders of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of discussion in early twentieth century biology AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF MARSHALL WILLIAM

Creator:: Alexander, Gail Marie
Abstract:: A number of historians of science have been involved in studying the nature of biology at the turn of the century, and the picture that they have developed describes biology during this time as a field struggling to define itself. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, biologists were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: development as related to the ideas and ideals of William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944) AN ABSTRACT OF THE

Creator:: Read, Richard Thomas
Abstract:: In February 1905 the Oregon State Academy of Sciences formed in Portland to promote scientific research and diffusion of scientific knowledge in Oregon. The founders also planned to assist in the discovery and development of the state's natural resources. The Academy was the first scientific society in Oregon with professional...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -1903), Henry Failing (1834-1898), Jacob Kamm (1823-1912), William S. Ladd (1826-1893), Cicero H. Lewis

Creator:: Kinch, Michael P.
Abstract:: At the beginning of the nineteenth century most theorizing British naturalists supported a Biblical account of the distribution of life which was based upon the notion that life had been dispersed from the resting place of the ark. This implied a relatively even dispersion of life about the Earth, but...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Regions of Creation and Catastrophism 24 James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) 30 William Kirby (1759-1850) 48

Creator:: Blaisdell, Muriel Louise
Abstract:: Mimicry, obscure colors, and secondary sexual colors were important classes of observations that were analyzed by nineteenth century biologists from several vantage points. Adherents of the doctrine of special creation of fixed species believed animal colors to be evidence of design; Darwin and Wallace and their successors suggested that a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Barzun's Darwin, Marx, Wagner10. Gertrude Himmelfarb's, Jacques Barzun's and sometimes William Irvine's

Creator:: Koroloff, Rachel
Abstract:: Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Johnson, Kristin Renee
Abstract:: In 1959 the British Ornithological journal, The Ibis, published a centenary commemorative volume on the history of ornithology in Britain. Over the previous few decades, the contributors to this volume had helped focus the attention of ornithologists on the methods, priorities, and problems of modem biology, specifically the theory ofevolution...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: with the work and population thinking of systematists. See Ernst Mayr & William Provine, The

Creator:: Benson, Keith Rodney
Abstract:: There were two viable theories of generation, preformation and epigenesis, existing in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Due to their irreconcilable nature, they were often at loggerheads during this time interval. The status of these generation theories can be effectively understood in terms of Thomas Kuhn's conception of preparadigm science....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , William Harvey (1578-1657) published De Generatione, in which he attempted to establish a theory of

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