International Science and National Scientific Identity: Australia between Britain and America

by Roderick Weir Home (Editor)

Does Distance Tyrannize Science?.- Tyrannies of Distance in British Science.- Dr George Bennett and Sir Richard A Case Study of the Colonization of Early Australian Science.- A Far British Geological Research in Australia during the Nineteenth Century.- A Collaborative Dimension of the European Australian and French Acclimatization Societies and Intercolonial Scientific Co-operation.- International Exchange in the Natural History Museums in Australia and the United States.- A World-wide Scientific Network and Patronage Australian and Other 'Colonial' Fellows of the Royal Society of London.- Ionospheric and Radio Physics in Australian Science since the Early Days.- Theories of the Earth as Seen from Below.- Geographic Isolation and the Origin of The Migrations of Michael White.- Antipodal Bushfire Research in Australia and America.- Notes on Contributors.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published March 31, 1991