Home R.W., Kohlstedt S.G (eds.) International Science and National Scientific Identity: Australia between Britain and America

Springer, 1991. — 318 pp.This volume comprises a selection of the papers presented at a conference held at the University of Melbourne in May of 1988 on the theme, 'Nationalism and Internationalism in Science: Australia, America, and the World of Science'. Contributors take as their starting point existing discussions of the notion of colonialism in science, most notably those arising from an earlier Melbourne conference. Some maintain the focus on the colonial condition itself. Others, however, shift our attention to the breaking up of the old lines of authority and colonial dependency by looking instead at Australia's expanding scientific links with a third power, itself of rapidly growing significance on the world's scientific stage, the United States of America.Does Distance Tyrannize Science? (by David Wade Chambers).
Tyrannies of Distance in British Science (by David Knight).
Dr George Bennett and Sir Richard Owen: A Case Study of the Colonization of Early Australian Science (by Elizabeth Dalton Newland).
A Far Frontier: British Geological Research in Australia during the Nineteenth Century (by Robert A. Stafford).
A Collaborative Dimension of the European Empires: Australian and French Acclimatization Societies and Intercolonial Scientific Co-operation (by Michael A. Osborne).
International Exchange in the Natural History Enterprise: Museums in Australia and the United States (by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt).
A World-wide Scientific Network and Patronage System: Australian and Other 'Colonial' Fellows of the Royal Society of London (by R. W. Home).
Ionospheric and Radio Physics in Australian Science since the Early Days (by C. Stewart Gillmor).
Theories of the Earth as Seen from Below (by H. E. Le Grand).
Geographic Isolation and the Origin of Species: The Migrations of Michael White (by Jan Sapp).
Antipodal Fire: Bushfire Research in Australia and America (by Stephen J. Pyne).