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Acknowledgments Since this book ultimately stems from dilemmas raised during travels in the tropics when I was an undergraduate, almost two decades ago, a number of people have helped, advised, and inspired me during my time studying the naturalist tradition. Placing them in some sort of chronological order, I thank Scott Barton and Paul Salaman for inspiring me to delve into the history of the study of biodiversity in the first place and Keith Benson and Bruce Hevly for helping me figure out where to start. Thank you to the faculty and staff of the history department at Oregon State University, especially Bill Husband, Mark Largent, Mary Jo Nye, and Robert Nye. I am very grateful to my fellow graduate students and to Ginny Domka and Vreneli Farber for their friendship and conversation. I would like to acknowledge the help of the following individuals in carrying out the archival research for this study: at the Natural History Museum in London , Susan Snell and Polly Parry, of the Archives, Julie Harvey and Sharon Touzel , of the Entomology Library, and Christopher Mills, of Special Collections. MythanksforhelpwitharchivalresearchalsogotoLindaBirchattheAlexander Library of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology; to Stella Brecknell at the Hope Entomological Archives at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Alison Harding and Effie Warr at the Tring Library of the Natural History Museum, London; Berit Pedersen, of the Royal Entomological Society of London; Bernadette G. Callery, of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Archives ; Julia Lindkvist, Maria Asp, and the staff of the Center for the History of Science of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm; Melanie Aspey, of the Rothschild Archive; Barbara Mathe, of the American Museum of Natural History; Pamela Henson, of the Smithsonian Institution; Andrea Goldstein, of the Harvard University Archives; Roberto Poggi, of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa; Lee R. Hiltzik, of the Rockefeller Archive Center; and the archivists at the University of Göttingen. 314 acknowledgments For conversations and encouragement during my research, I am grateful to Phil Ackery, Daniel Alexandrov, David Allen, Jean-François Auger, Andrew Brower, Robert C. Dagleish, Fritz Davis, Channah Farber, Elihu M. Gerson, Jonathan Harwood, Pamela Henson, Graham Howarth, Connie Johnson, William Kimler, Ian Kitching, Jim Mallet, Don Opitz, Robert Prys-Jones, Malcolm Scoble , Michael Walters, and Effie Warr. I would like to particularly acknowledge the help of the late Ernst Mayr, Miriam Rothschild, and Elwood C. Zimmerman, who shared their memories of Jordan, and Jürgen Haffer, who encouraged me to tell the entomologists’ story. The fellows and staff of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and the faculty, staff, and students of Arizona State University’s Center for Biology and Society provided enormous support. At the latter, I am especially grateful to Christofer Bang, Matt Chew, Antony Gill, Marie Glitz, Andrew Hamilton, Manfred Laublicher, Jane Maienschein, Kathleen Pigg, David Pearson, and Mary Sunderland. The members of the 2010 MBL-ASU Seminar in History of Biology provided helpful insight during the final stages of the project . I am grateful to all my colleagues at the University of Puget Sound for their encouragement and friendship and would particularly like to thank James Evans , Mott Greene, Suzanne Holland, and Peter Wimberger for helping to ensure I could find time to finish this book. Most recently, I would like to thank Bob Brugger, Kara Reiter, and Ashleigh McKown at the Johns Hopkins University Press. To those who do not fit any particular place on a timeline because they are everywhere, thank you Donna and Larry Johnson, Christa and Gary Ellis, Shannon Dixon, Tamra Erickson, and (because correct grammar fails to provide me with a strong enough superlative) most especially Erik Ellis. Finally, I am very grateful to Paul Farber for his patient and encouraging mentorship. Thank you, Paul, for all your guidance during my journey into the history of the naturalist tradition. This project was supported through National Science Foundation Grant SES-0218289, the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, NSF Post-Doctoral Fellowship # SES-0324033, and a University of Puget Sound Martin Nelson Junior Sabbatical Grant. All material from the archives of the Natural History Museum, London, is used by permission of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, for which I am very grateful. I would also like to acknowledge the staffs of the archives (listed in the notes) for permission to use and quote material from their collections. ...

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