%0 Book
%T Patrons of paleontology: how government support shaped a science
%A Davidson, Jane P.
%S Life of the past
%D 2017
%I Indiana University Press
%C Bloomington, Indiana, USA
%@ 0253025710
%G English
%F 1628390417
%O Jane P. Davidson
%O Includes bibliographical references and index
%X 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
%L 560.72073
%K Paleontology
%K Finance
%K History
%K 18th century
%K 19th century
%K 20th century
%K United States
%9 Text