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Davidson, Jane P., author.
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Paleontology -- Finance -- History -- 18th century.
Paleontology -- Finance -- History -- 19th century.
Paleontology -- Finance -- History -- 20th century.
Paleontology -- United States -- Finance -- History -- 19th century.
Paleontology -- United States -- Finance -- History -- 20th century.
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Patrons of paleontol...
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Patrons of paleontology : how government support shaped a science / Jane P. Davidson.
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Davidson, Jane P., author.
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Subjects
Paleontology -- Finance -- History -- 18th century.
Paleontology -- Finance -- History -- 19th century.
Paleontology -- Finance -- History -- 20th century.
Paleontology -- United States -- Finance -- History -- 19th century.
Paleontology -- United States -- Finance -- History -- 20th century.
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9780253025715 (cloth ; alkaline paper) :
0253025710 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
Series:
Life of the past.
Description:
xxi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- 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 and 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.
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