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

Creator:

Read, Richard Thomas

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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...

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Masters Thesis

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patrons of the Academy were William S. Mason (1832-1899), who was mayor of Portland at the time of the
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...

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Dissertation

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domestication to experimental scrutiny. In August of 1899, with “the dawn of the 20th century [and a new