Class 10 (9/16)
A national venture
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A look back: 18th century
Changes of the 1840s: scientific societies
The AAAS
The moment: 1848
What the AAAS did
Organizing a national scientific community
Leadership
Rank and file
Excursus: professionalization
New relations to the public: the Smithsonian
The Civil War (1861-1865)
Disruptions and limited contributions
A National Academy of Sciences
| Primary | Secondary |
| Association of American Geologists and Naturalists (fd. 1842)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (fd. 1848) The Lazzaroni Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) Smithsonian Institution (fd. 1846) Joseph Henry (1797-1878) National Academy of Sciences (fd. 1863) |
Silliman's Journal = American Journal of Science and Arts
charlatanism Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880) James Smithson (d. 1835) |