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Science 24 February 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5764, pp. 1101 - 1102
DOI: 10.1126/science.1123437
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Ecology Beginning with the Botanists

Nancy Slack

The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000
by Sharon E. Kingsland
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2005. 325 pp. $50, £33.50. ISBN 0-8018-8171-4.
The author explores the course of ecology in the United States from its origins in the 1890s through the changing intellectual and cultural environments of the 20th century.

The reviewer, the author of the forthcoming G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology, is at the Biology Department, The Sage Colleges, Troy, NY 12180, USA. E-mail: slacknan@aol.com

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