A century of science in America
Subtitle: with special reference to the American journal of science, 1818-1918
By: by Edward Salisbury Dana ... [et al.].
Contributors: Dana, Edward Salisbury, 1849-1935.
Series: Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures.
Publisher: Scholarly Resources
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: American journal of science.; Science -- United States -- History.
Description: 458 p., [21] leaves of plates : 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Reprint of the ed. published by Yale University Press, New Haven, in series: Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures, Yale University.
Table of contents: title: Dana, E. S. The American journal of science from 1818 to 1918.; title: Schuchert, C. A century of geology, the progress of historical geology in North America.; title: Gregory, H. E. A century of geology, steps of progress in the interpretation of land forms.; title: Barrell, J. A century of geology (continued), the growth of knowledge of Earth structure.; title: Smith, G. O. A century of Government Geological Surveys.; title: Lull, R. S. On the development of vertebrate paleontology.; title: Pirsson, L. V. The rise of petrology as a science.; title: Ford, W. E. The growth of mineralogy from 1818 to 1918.; title: Sosman, R. B. The work of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.; title: Wells, H. L. and Foote, H. W. The progress of chemistry during the past one hundred years.; title: Page, L. A century's progress in physics.; title: Coe, W. R. A century of zoology in America.; title: Goodale, G. L. The development of botany since 1818.