Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

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2935. JAGO, J. B., M. D. PHARAOH, and C. L.
WILSON-ROBERTS. “Douglas Mawson’s First Major
Geological Expedition: The New Hebrides, 1903.”
Earth Sci. Hist. 24 (2005): 93–111.
2936. KEHRWALD, Kevin Jay. “Clearing the Air:
Representations of Weather and Natural Disaster in
American Fiction and Film.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/07
(2005): 2602.
Dissertation at Purdue University, 2001. Adviser: Peterson,
Nancy J. UMI pub. no. 3138287. 289 pp.
2937. KIM Boumsoung. “Science for State: Seismic
Exploration in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s.” [Translated
title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.)
43 (2004): 211–220.
2938. LI Xue-tong. “Controversy about the Organization
of the Sino-Swedish Scientific Expedition
to Northwest China.” [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Zhongguo Keji Shiliao 25 (2004): 95–105.
2939. LI Xue-tong. “Textual Research on the History
of the Bureau of National Geological Survey of
China.” [Translated title.] In Chinese. Zhongguo Keji
Shiliao 24 (2003): 351–358.
Argues that the founding of the bureau was in 1913.
2940. LI Xuetong. “Textual Research on the Early
History of Chinese Geology.” [Translated title.] In
Chinese. Chinese J. Hist. Sci. Tech. 27 (2006): 61–74.
2941. MAZUR, Allan. A Romance in Natural History:
The Lives and Works of Amadeus Grabau and
Mary Antin. (viii + 484 pp.; bibl.; index.) Syracuse,
N.Y.: Garret, 2004.
On Grabau’s work in America and China as a geologist and
paleontologist and his life with Antin. Reviews: [ref. R599]
2942. MIZUNO Hiroo. “In What Manner Has the
Work on Earthquake Prediction Been Conveyed to
the Public? From the Kanto Earthquake in 1923 to
the So-Called Tokai Earthquake.” [Translated title.]
In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 43 (2004):
239–242.
2943. PÉREZ DE RUBÍN Y FEIGL, Juan. 90 aniversario.
El Instituto Español de Oceanografia: sus
origenes y primeras investigaciones. (37 pp.; ill.)
Madrid: Instituto Español de Oceanografía, 2004.
2944. RADHAKRISHNA, B. P. (Ed.) J. B. Auden: A
Centenary Tribute. Memoir, 56. (332 pp.; ill.; bibl.)
Bangalore: Geological Society of India, 2003. ISBN:
8185867615.
Auden worked on the Geological Survey of India from 1927
to 1953. This volume includes biographical information as
well as selected papers of his.
2945. RAINGER, Ronald. “Oceanography and Fieldwork:
Geopolitics and Research at The Scripps Institution.”
In LEVITON and ALDRICH [ref. 421],
185–208.
2946. SCHWACH, Vera. “An Eye into the Sea: The
Early Development of Fisheries Acoustics in Norway,
1935–1960.” In ROZWADOWSKI and VAN KEUREN
[ref. 402], 211–242.
2947. SHI Baoheng. “Early Exploration and Exploitation
of the Yanchang Oilfield.” [Translated
title.] In Chinese. Chinese J. Hist. Sci. Tech. 27
(2006): 75–80.
2948. SMED, Jens. “The Central Laboratory of the
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
(ICES) and Its Successors.” Earth Sci. Hist. 24
(2005): 225–246.
2949. SMILES, David. “John Robert Philip 1927–
1999.” Hist. Rec. Aust. Sci. 16 (2005): 221–246.
An Austrailian, Philip contributed to theoretical and mathematical
hydrology.
2950. SONG Guangbo. “A Supplementary Study on
Some Historical Facts about the Institute of Geology.”
[Translated title.] In Chinese. Chinese J. Hist. Sci.
Tech. 27 (2006): 162–169.
2951. THOMSON, M. R. A., and Alan P. M.
VAUGHAN. “The Role of Antarctica in the Development
of Plate Tectonic Theories: From Scott to the
Present.” Arch. Natur. Hist. 32 (2005): 362–393.
2952. TJOSSEM, Sara. The Journey to PICES: Scientific
Cooperation in the North Pacific. Alaska Sea
Grant College Program Report, no. 05-04. (xii + 194
pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Fairbanks, AK: Univ. of Alaska
Fairbanks, 2005. ISBN: 1566120993.
2953. TOMARI Jiro. “The Concept of Geosynclines
and Plate Tectonics in Japan.” [Translated title.] In
Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 44 (2005):
23–32.
2954. WALSH, Virginia M. Global Institutions and
Social Knowledge: Generating Research at the
Scripps Institution and the Inter-American Tropical
Tuna Commission, 1900s–1990s. Politics, Science,
and the Environment. (xvi + 171 pp.; bibl.;
index.) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN:
0262731673.
Examines the impact of global research institutions on the
generation and acceptance of scientific knowledge internationally.
Reviews: [ref. R950]
2955. WEIR, Gary E. “Fashioning Naval Oceanography:
Columbus O’Donnell Iselin and American
Preparation for War, 1940–1941.” In ROZWADOWSKI
and VAN KEUREN [ref. 402], 65–91.
2956. WILLIAMS, Kathleen Broome. “From Civilian
Planktonologist to Navy Oceanographer: Mary
Sears in World War II.” In ROZWADOWSKI and VAN
KEUREN [ref. 402], 243–272.
2957. YAJIMA, Michiko. “Japanese Wartime Geology:
A Case Study in Northeast China.” Special
Issue: Science, War, and Colonization in East Asia
[ref. 2746]. Hist. Scientiarum 15 (2006): 222–232.
2958. YOUNG, Davis A. “N. L. Bowen, H. H. Hess,
and Ultramafic Rocks: Perspectives on Ophiolites
before Plate Tectonics.” In Ophiolite Concept and
the Evolution of Geological Thought, edited by Sarah
NEWCOMB and Yildirim DILEK (Boulder, Colo.:
Geological Society of America, 2004), 55–63.
2959. YU Bo. “The China Earth Science Society After
Zhang Xiangwen.” [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Zhongguo Keji Shiliao 25 (2004): 133–145.
2960. ZHANG Jiu-chen. “On the Progress of China’s
Modern Earth Science from Coching Chu’s Contribution.”
[Translated title.] In Chinese. Zhongguo Keji
Shiliao 24 (2003): 112–122.
370-121. GEOGRAPHY, CARTOGRAPHY, AND
EXPLORATION
2961. DRIVENES, Einar-Arne, and Harald Dag
JØLLE. (Eds.) Norsk polarhistorie. Three volumes:
1. Ekspedisjonene; 2. Vitenskapene; 3. Rik-