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The marine biological station of San Diego : its development as related to the ideas and ideals of William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944)

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:: THESIS OF Gail Marie Alexander for the degree of Master of Science in General Science presented on

An assessment of rival British theories of biogeography, 1800-1859

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:: the result of sev- eral areas of creation. A major goal of the natural theologians, from James C

The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

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
Full Text:: wanted one. According to James Cracraft, the new Table of Ranks conferred “hereditary noble status

Institutionalizing Science in Oregon : The Role of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914

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:: charter Mazama and is listed as a member of the Oregon Academy of Science in 1892. James A. Lyman (1866

The antibiotic discovery era (1940-1960) : vancomycin as an example of the era

Creator:: McGraw, Donald J.
Abstract:: An examination of the technical and historical literature concerning the discovery and development of antibiotics suggests the possible existence of an era of discovery. This era appears to have a well-defined beginning (about 1940) and a well-defined close (about 1960). It is the purpose of this dissertation to examine the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Dr. Mack H. McCormick, Dr. Henry K. Nelis, Dr. C. W. Pettinga, Mr. James H. Pearcy, Mr. Richard A

The coloration of animals : a nineteenth century controversy

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:: Metaphysics, " Victorian Studies 3:19-40, 1959. 17 James K. Feibleman, "Darwin and Scientific Method

Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

Creator:: Blanchard, Nicholas
Abstract:: By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ’ Biology in Cultures of Natural History. Nicholas Jardine, James Secord, and

John Fiske's philosophy of science : the union of science and religion through the principle of evolution

Creator:: Lester, Jacob Franklin
Abstract:: Modern science was produced by a Christian society, and although science has had an effect on Christianity, it could not itself remain unaffected. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the subject of evolution was as much a religious as a scientific issue. The battle line was drawn and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The Ibis, journal of the British Ornithologists' Union : a pre-synthesis portrait

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:: compilation volume edited by Nicholas Jardine, James A. Secord, and E.C. Spary, Cultures ofNatural History

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The marine biological station of San Diego : its development as related to the ideas and ideals of William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944)

An assessment of rival British theories of biogeography, 1800-1859

The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

Institutionalizing Science in Oregon : The Role of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914

The antibiotic discovery era (1940-1960) : vancomycin as an example of the era

The coloration of animals : a nineteenth century controversy

Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

John Fiske's philosophy of science : the union of science and religion through the principle of evolution

The Ibis, journal of the British Ornithologists' Union : a pre-synthesis portrait

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