@Book{1628390417,
author="Davidson, Jane P.",
title="Patrons of paleontology: how government support shaped a science",
series="Life of the past",
year="2017",
publisher="Indiana University Press",
address="Bloomington, Indiana, USA",
keywords="Paleontology; Finance; History; 18th century; 19th century; 20th century; United States",
abstract="Introduction : the cost of doing business -- 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 to 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",
note="Jane P. Davidson",
note="Includes bibliographical references and index",
isbn="0253025710",
language="English"
}