Author: Roderick MacFarlane
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Land and Sea Birds Nesting Within the Arctic Circle in the Lower Mackenzie River District
Author: Roderick MacFarlane
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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A Biological Investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie Region
Author: Edward Alexander Preble
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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North American Fauna
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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Enlightened Zeal
Author: Theodore Binnema
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442666951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Enlightened Zeal examines the fascinating history of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s involvement in scientific networks during the company’s two-hundred year chartered monopoly. Working from the company’s voluminous records, Ted Binnema demonstrates the significance of science in the company’s corporate strategies. Initially highly secretive about all of its activities, the HBC was by 1870 an exceptionally generous patron of science. Aware of the ways that a commitment to scientific research could burnish its corporate reputation, the company participated in intricate symbiotic networks that linked the HBC as a corporation with individuals and scientific organizations in England, Scotland, and the United States. The pursuit of scientific knowledge could bring wealth and influence, along with tribute, fame, and renown, but science also brought less tangible benefits: adventure, health, happiness, male companionship, self-improvement, or a sense of meaning. The first study of scientific research in any chartered company over the entire course of its monopoly, Enlightened Zeal expands our understanding of social networks in science, establishes the vast scope of the HBC’s contribution to public knowledge, and will inspire new research into the history of science in other chartered monopolies.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442666951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Enlightened Zeal examines the fascinating history of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s involvement in scientific networks during the company’s two-hundred year chartered monopoly. Working from the company’s voluminous records, Ted Binnema demonstrates the significance of science in the company’s corporate strategies. Initially highly secretive about all of its activities, the HBC was by 1870 an exceptionally generous patron of science. Aware of the ways that a commitment to scientific research could burnish its corporate reputation, the company participated in intricate symbiotic networks that linked the HBC as a corporation with individuals and scientific organizations in England, Scotland, and the United States. The pursuit of scientific knowledge could bring wealth and influence, along with tribute, fame, and renown, but science also brought less tangible benefits: adventure, health, happiness, male companionship, self-improvement, or a sense of meaning. The first study of scientific research in any chartered company over the entire course of its monopoly, Enlightened Zeal expands our understanding of social networks in science, establishes the vast scope of the HBC’s contribution to public knowledge, and will inspire new research into the history of science in other chartered monopolies.
A Thousand Miles of Prairie
Author: Jim Blanchard
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 088755072X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A Thousand Miles of Prairie is a fascinating look at Manitoba's early boom years (1880-1910) through the eyes and words of some of the most interesting personalities of early Winnipeg. This collection brings together 14 pieces from the first decades of the Manitoba Historical Society, when its lectures were attended by the provinceís political and cultural elite. Jim Blanchard has chosen selections that give us a vivid taste of the diversity of intellectual life in turn of the century Manitoba. Besides writings by early historians such as George Bryce and Charles Bell, he includes a paper by the young Ernest Thompson Seton, who writes about his attempts to raise prairie chickens. There is also a description of the last passenger pigeons found in Manitoba. The collection includes lively personal reminscences, such as Gilbert McMicken, Canada's first spymaster, talking about foiling a Fenian raid on Winnipeg, and Archbishop Samuel Matheson, who tells about his boyhood adventures in the great Red River floods of the 1860s.
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 088755072X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A Thousand Miles of Prairie is a fascinating look at Manitoba's early boom years (1880-1910) through the eyes and words of some of the most interesting personalities of early Winnipeg. This collection brings together 14 pieces from the first decades of the Manitoba Historical Society, when its lectures were attended by the provinceís political and cultural elite. Jim Blanchard has chosen selections that give us a vivid taste of the diversity of intellectual life in turn of the century Manitoba. Besides writings by early historians such as George Bryce and Charles Bell, he includes a paper by the young Ernest Thompson Seton, who writes about his attempts to raise prairie chickens. There is also a description of the last passenger pigeons found in Manitoba. The collection includes lively personal reminscences, such as Gilbert McMicken, Canada's first spymaster, talking about foiling a Fenian raid on Winnipeg, and Archbishop Samuel Matheson, who tells about his boyhood adventures in the great Red River floods of the 1860s.
Naturalist's Guide to the Americas
Author: Nature Conservancy (U.S.)
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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The Publications of the Champlain Society
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Torch and Colonial Book Circular
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Languages : en
Pages : 552
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The Publications of the Champlain Socety
Author: S. Hearne
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5872006128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5872006128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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