Science in the Federal Government: A History of Policies and Activities to 1940

Abstract

Preface Preface to the First Edition 1. First Attempts to Form a Policy, 1787-1800 2. Theory and Action in the Jeffersonian Era, 1800-1829 3. Practical Achievements in the Age of the Common Man, 1829-1842 4. The Fulfillment of Smithson's Will, 1829-1861 5. The Great Explorations and Survey's Will, 1829-1861 6. Bache and the Quest for a Central Scientific Organization, 1851-1861 7. The Civil War, 1861-1865 8. The Evolution of Research in Agriculture, 1862-1916 9. The Decline of Science in the military Services, 1865-1890 10. The Geological Survey, 1867-1885 11. The Allison Commission and the Department of Sceince, 1884-1886 12. Conservation, 1865-1916 13. Medicine and Public Health, 1865-1916 14. The Completion of the Federal Scientific Establishment 15. Patterns of Government Research in Modern America, 1865-1916 16. The Impact of World War I, 1914-1918 17. Transition to a Business Era, 1919-1929 18. The Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939 19. Prospect and Retrospect at the Beginning of a New Era, 1940 Chronology Bibliographic Notes References Index

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