The Pursuit of Knowledge in the Early American Republic: American Scientific and Learned Societies from Colonial Times to the Civil War

xxv, 372 pp. CONTENTS: Foreword: The Learned Society in American Intellectual Life, by John Voss; Preface, by I. Bernard Cohen; Introduction: To Build a New Intellectual Order, by Alexandra Oleson; Science, Learning, and Utility: Patterns of Organization in the Early American Republic, by John C. Greene; The National Pattern of American Learned Societies, 1769-1863, by A. Hunter Dupree; Definitions and Speculations: The Professionalization of Science in America in the Nineteenth Century, by Nathan Reingold; The Royal Society in America, by George F. Frick; The Underside of the Learned Society in New York, 1754-1854, by Brooke Hindle; Shaping a Provincial Learned Society: The Early History of the Albany Institute, by James M. Hobbins; Early Learned Societies in Boston and Vicinity, by Walter Muir Whitehill; The Academy of National Sciences of Philadelphia, 1812-1850, by Patsy, A. Gerstner; Science, Technology, and the Franklin Institute, by Bruce Sinclair; The Growth of Learned and Scientific Societies in the Southeastern United States to 1860, by Joseph Ewan; The Western Academy of Natural Sciences of Cincinnati and the Structure of Science in the Ohio Valley, 1810-1850, by Henry D. Shapiro; The Nature of Humanistic Societies in Early America, by Marcus A. McCorison; Medicine and the Learned Society in the United States, 1660-1850, by James H. Cassedy; The Organization of Agricultural Improvement in the United States, 1785-1865, by Margaret W. Rossiter; Savants and Professionals: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848-1860, by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt; The Early Development of Scientific Societies in Canada, by Peter J. Bowler; Commentary: A Historian of Education Looks at the Newagen Study, by Richard J. Storr; Early American Learned Societies as Informants on Our Past: Some Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Research, by Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz; Notes on Contributors; Index.