Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Contributors VII
4. Preface XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. Natural History to Biology
7. 1. Museums on Campus: A Tradition of Inquiry and Teaching 15
8. 2. From Museum Research to Laboratory Research: The Transformation of Natural History into Academic Biology 49
9. Part Two. Centers of Cooperation
10. 3. Organizing Biology: The American Society of Naturalists and its "Affiliated Societies," 1883–1923 87
11. 4. Summer Resort and Scientific Discipline: Woods Hole and the Structure of American Biology, 1882–1925 121
12. 5. Whitman at Chicago: Establishing a Chicago Style of Biology? 151
13. Part Three. Working at the Boundaries of Biology
14. 6. Charles Otis Whitman, Wallace Craig, and the Biological Study of Animal Behavior in the United States, 1898–1925 185
15. 7. Vertebrate Paleontology as Biology: Henry Fairfield Osborn and the American Museum of Natural History 219
16. 8. Organism and Environment: Frederic Clements's Vision of a Unified Physiological Ecology 257
17. 9. Mendel in America: Theory and Practice, 1900-1919 281
18. 10. Cellular Politics: Ernest Everett Just, Richard Β. Goldschmidt, and the Attempt to Reconcile Embryology and Genetics 311
19. Bibliography 347
20. Index 365