TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davidson, Jane P.
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017//
TI  - Patrons of paleontology: how government support shaped a science
T3  - Life of the past
PB  - Indiana University Press
CY  - Bloomington, Indiana, USA
KW  - Paleontology
KW  - Finance
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - United States
AB  - 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
SN  - 0253025710
LA  - English
N1  - Jane P. Davidson
ID  - 1628390417
ER  -