Biologists and the promise of American life: from Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey
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| adam_text | BIOLOGISTS
AND THE PROMISE
OF AMERICAN LIFE
FROM MERIWETHER LEWIS TO ALFRED KINSEY
PHILIP J j^AULY
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
INTRODUCTION
Toward a Cultural History of American Biology 3
PARTI
NATURALISTS AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER ONE
Natural History and Manifest Destiny, 1800-1865 15
Lewis to Barton to Pursh: The Lack of Teamwork among
American Naturalists 15
Nature in the Early Republic 17
The Education of John Torrey 22
Asa Cray, American Botanical Entrepreneur 25
Gray, Agassiz, and the Impending Crisis 33
Darwin and the Union s Struggle for Existence 39
CHAPTER TWO
Culturing Fish, Culturing People: Federal Naturalists
in the Gilded Age, 1865-1893 44
The Struggles of Spencer Baird 45
A Golden Age in the Gilded Age 47
A Scientific Community 51
Guiding National Development 56
Evolutionary Culture 60
CHAPTER THREE
Conflicting Visions of American Ecological Independence 71
The Beauty and Menace of the Japanese Cherry Trees 71
America s Ecological Open Door 74
The Beginnings of a Federal Response to Pests 76
CONTENTS
Ecological Cosmopolitanism in the Bureau of Plant Industry 80
The Return of the Nativists 84
Ecological Independence and Immigration Restriction 89
PART II
SPECIALIZATION AND ORGANIZATION
PROLOGUE
Whitman s American Biology 94
CHAPTER FOUR
Life Science Initiatives in the Late Nineteenth Century 99
The Eclipse of the Federal Naturalists 99
From Agassiz to Burbank: A Cross-Country Tour 103
CHAPTER FIVE
Academic Biology: Searching for Order in Life 126
American Naturalists 127
A Scientific Confederacy 131
Medical Reform, Universities, and Urban Life 133
Whitman and Chicago 139
Challenges to University Biology 141
CHAPTER Six
A Place of Their Own: The Significance of Woods Hole 145
Summer Colonies 146
Summering Scientists 148
The Development of Woods Hole 150
Whitman s Desires 152
The Biological Community 153
Woods Hole and American Biology 158
Neglecting American Life 160
Vlll
CONTENTS
PART III
THE AGE OF BIOLOGY
PROLOGUE
A View from the Heights 166
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Development of High School Biology 171
Life in Hell s Kitchen 173
Biology Education and Mental Development 179
Pedagogical Problems 185
Producing Modern Americans 191
CHAPTER EIGHT
Big Questions 194
Why the Scopes Trial Mattered 194
The Rough Rider, and Other Spokesmen for Science 196
Academic Biologists Address the Public 198
William Emerson Ritter and the Glory of Life 201
CHAPTER NINE
Good Breeding in Modern America 214
The Imperfect Amalgamation of Eugenics and Biology 215
Charles B Davenport and the Difficulty of Eugenic Research 221
Solving the Problems of Sex 227
Alfred Kinsey s America 233
EPILOGUE 239
Notes 245
Index 303
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