UID:
edocfu_9959239912402883
Format:
1 online resource (258 pages) :
,
illustrations.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-253-03357-8
,
0-253-03358-6
Series Statement:
Life of the Past
Content:
These early decades of government support shaped the way the discipline grew, creating practices and enabling discoveries that continue to affect paleontology today.
Note:
Introduction : the cost of doing business -- The beginnings of government support for paleontology -- Eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century paleontologists and patrons -- Developments in government support for paleontology in the United States between 1830 to about 1880 -- Paleontology in mid nineteenth-century surveys outside the United States -- Government support for paleontology in the late nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth century : 1880 to about 1940 -- Conclusion : the chain of paleontology -- Appendix : glossary of prominent patrons and paleontologists.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-02571-0
Language:
English
