4. From Naples to South Africa: A Failed Career?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. 1. A Man So Various 1
7. 2. “The Circumstances of My Upbringing” 15
8. 3. Becoming A Zoologist: The Hunter and Gatherer 42
9. 4. From Naples to South Africa: A Failed Career? 63
10. 5. First Years at Yale 89
11. 6. Chief Biologist: The Yale North India Expedition 100
12. 7. The First Crop: W. T. Edmondson, Gordon Riley, Ed Deevey, And Max Dunbar 115
13. 8. The Old and the New Limnology 138
14. 9. Radioisotopes: Radiation Ecology and Systems Ecology 159
15. 10. Biogeochemistry: From Linsley Pond to the Guano Islands 171
16. 11. The Three Wives and Yemaiel 199
17. 12. Good Friends: Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson 235
18. 13. Fond Correspondents: Rebecca West and Evelyn Hutchinson 250
19. 14. From The N-Dimensional Niche to Santa Rosalia 275
20. 15. Hutchinson the Environmentalist 294
21. 16. The Polymath: Art History and Many Other Fields 320
22. 17. The Last Years—From Yale to England 334
23. 18. Concluding Remarks: Hutchinson’s Legacy in Ecology 371
24. Notes 395
25. Bibliography 431
26. Index 443