In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

Over the course of researching and writing, I have accrued a great many debts to many great people.This book began as a doctoral dissertation in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, and it is a great pleasure to thank my advisors, Gregg Mitman and Lynn Nyhart, for their encouragement, advice, and friendship. The history of science community in Madison made graduate school a true delight. I also completed an M.S. in biology at the University of Michigan. My advisor there, Jerry Smith, encouraged me to think broadly about paleontology, animal behavior, and evolutionary theory, including their historical development. John Carson took a chance on a biologist and introduced me to the wonders of the history of science. While researching this project, I visited many archives on three different continents. The following archivists, curators, and collections managers with whom I worked were tremendously helpful: John Henry Bennett and Cheryl Hoskin (Barr Smith Library of the University of Adelaide), M. Linda Birch (Zoology and Alexander Librarian, Oxford University Library Services), Mandy York Focke (Woodson Research Center, Rice University ), Michael Gabriel (Roosevelt University), Janice Goldblum (National Academies Archives), Colin Harris (Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford), Barbara Mathé (Special Collections, American Museum of Natural History [AMNH] Research Library), Barbara Meloni (Pusey Library, Harvard University Archives), Chuck Myers, Darrell Frost, and David Dickey (Department of Herpetology, AMNH), Tracy Elizabeth Robinson (Smithsonian Institution Archives), and Ethel Tobach (Department of Mammalogy, AMNH). I also spent a highly productive and enjoyable month and a half at the American Philosophical Society (APS) Library, thanks to Joseph James Ahern, Valerie-Ann Lutz, Roy Goodman, and Charles Greifenstein. In addition, Lee Ehrman, Claudine Petit, John Maynard Smith, Eliot Spiess, and Robert Trivers graciously shared memories of their scientific research and colleagues, and I thank them for their time and thoughtfulness. Nicolas Gompel put me in touch with Mme. Claudine Petit. Colleagues at Clemson University were invaluable as resources and friends as I began to think about turning the dissertation into a book. Thanks to Jake Hamblin, Pam Mack, Tom Oberdan, and the late Jerry Waldvogel for nurturing the Science and Technology in a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s 170 Acknowledgments Society community on campus. Thanks also to the members of the Biology Department who listened to my ideas and generously offered their thoughts and encouragements, especially Carroll Belser, Rick Blob, Bryan Brown, Michael Childress, Saara DeWalt, Nora Espinoza, Sid Gauthreaux, John Hains, Karen Hall, Kalan Ickes, Kim Paul, Margaret Ptacek, and Lisa Rapaport. Writing, I have learned, takes time, and without the opportunity to spend a year and a half at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, this book would have been longer in coming and almost certainly less interesting. I thank Lorraine Daston for taking me on as a postdoctoral fellow, and the people who spent time in and around Department II for creating a welcoming and intellectually stimulating environment in which to work. I owe special thanks to Charlotte Bigg, Luis Campos, Michael Gordin, Philip Kitcher, Maria Kronfeldner, Nick Langlitz, Daryn Lehoux, Andreas Mayer, Elysse Newman, Christine von Oertzen, Christian Reiß, Skúli Sigurdsson, Thomas Sturm, Kelly Wilder, Annette Vogt, and, of course, Tania Munz, for many delightful conversations about animals, gender, and science. As I wrote, and rewrote, I shared drafts of my work with many kind souls, whose acute suggestions clarified and improved my arguments and prose beyond measure. I thank the following people for reading those drafts (some of which were quite rough), either in part or whole: John Beatty, Jenny Boughman, Joe Cain, Lorraine Daston, Paul Erickson, Libbie Freed, Fred Gibbs, Michael Gordin, Jake Hamblin, Judy Houck, Maria Kronfeldner, Joshua Kundert, Pam Mack, Gregg Mitman, Lynn Nyhart, Brent Ruswick, Jonathan Seitz, Elliott Sober, Fernando Vidal, Stephen Wald, Brett Walker, Kelly Whitmer , and Kärin Zachmann. As I neared a final draft, Chip Burkhardt and Tania Munz read through the entire manuscript long after I was capable of seeing anything with fresh eyes. At the crucial moments when this project congealed into text, Brad Hersh shaped both its content and its form in too many ways to count. I feel lucky to be part of the History Department of the University of Maryland. Thanks especially to the Maryland Colloquium for the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment, and to the Washington, DC...

Share