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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:: "Darwinians" from the first. The moderation of Sir Gavin De Beer's Charles Darwin: A Scientific Biography, 7

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:: Graduate Research Assistantship at the Museum during the 1981-82 and 1982-83 academic years. David Willis

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:: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, see; David Allen, The Naturalist in Britain: a Social History

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:: Charles Otis Whitman (1842-1910), the first director of the MBL and the coordinator of the MBL lectures

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:: ………….....249 Freedom from the Tyranny of Instinct: Charles Otis Whitman, Progressivism, and

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
Full Text:: House of Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter; Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden; Herman Melville wrote

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:: , and Drs. Robert Becker, Daniel Jones, Richard Morita, and David Willis, from whom I have learned so

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