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100 1 $aPeck, Robert McCracken,$d1952-
245 12 $aA glorious enterprise :$bthe Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the making of American science /$cRobert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud ; photographs by Rosamond Purcell.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$cc2012.
300 $axvii, 437 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c32 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aA gathering of gentlemen : the founding and early years -- The lure of the West : exploration and exodus -- A widening sphere -- The American woodsman comes calling : John James Audubon and the academy -- The American Golgotha : defining race in the early republic -- Gorillas grab the limelight : Paul Du Chaillu, John Cassin, and the professionalization of science -- The marvelous bipedal masterpiece : religion, politics, and public display -- Fossils, finders, and feuds : Leidy, Hayden, Cope, and Marsh -- "I must have fame" : Robert Peary explores the Arctic -- Early man at the academy -- Volcanoes to caverns : exploring for minerals -- Academy expeditions, 1928 to 1960 -- Dioramas defy the Great Depression -- Science and celebrity : the academy goes Hollywood -- Visions in microscopes : water quality and the environment -- Regrouping and looking forward in the postwar years -- Reaching out : festivals and friends -- The academy's "glorious enterprise" completes its second century.
610 20 $aAcademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia$xHistory.
650 0 $aNatural history$xResearch$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia.
700 1 $aStroud, Patricia Tyson.
700 1 $aPurcell, Rosamond Wolff.
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