American Natural History The Pioneer Century, 1769-1865 The Rôle Played by the Scientific Societies; Scientific Journals; Natural BY MAX MEISEL, B.S., B.L.S. Formerly of the Science Division, N. Y. Public Library VOLUME I An Annotated Bibliography of the Publications Relating THE PREMIER PUBLISHING CO. 1924 "It seems too unfortunate, that we should allow the value of the labors of our predecessors to be depreciated, or to refer to the naturalists of the last century as belonging to the unscientific or to the archaic period. It has been frequently said by naturalists that there was no science in America until after the beginning of the present century. This is in one sense true; in another very false. There were then, it is certain, many men equal in capacity, in culture, in enthusiasm, to the naturalists of to-day, who were giving careful attention to the study of precisely the same phenomena of nature. Is it not incumbent upon workers in science to keep green the memory of those whose traditions we have inherited?" 655 QH8 мн v. I EARTH ... GEORGE BROWN GOODE |