Impact of travels on scientific knowledge : cultures and institutions of natural history : essays in the history and philosophy of science : papers presented an [i.e. at] an International Colloquium on the Impact of Travels on Scientific Knowledge, held 31 May-1 June 2002 at the Museo di Storia Naturale Faraggiana Ferrandi, Novara, Italy / edited by Michael T. Ghiselin and Alan E. Leviton.

San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences, [2004], ©2004.

iii, 176 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm.

"November 19, 2004"--Cover.

Alessandro Faraggiana, Ugo Ferrandi, and the birth of the Museum of Novara / Giovanni Pinna -- Impact of travels on scientific knowledge : the scientific and political results of the Second Bottego Expedition and the national and international context of Italian explorations in the Horn of Africa / Alberto M. Simonetta and Rosalino Sacchi -- The journeys of the Sicilian botanist Filippo Parlatore / Agnese Visconti -- Ernst Haeckel and the genealogy of scientific travel mystique / Michael T. Ghiselin -- Impacts of travels on scientific knowledge : Ralum (New Britain), a research station (1894-1897) sponsored by the Naples Zoological Station / Christiane Groeben -- The travels of Jena zoologists in the Indo-Malayan region / Uwe Hossfeld -- The role of eighteenth century Russian expeditions in the development of natural history / Edouard I. Kolchinsky -- The impact of travels on scientific knowledge : William Thomas Blanford, Henry Francis Blanford, and the Geological Survey of India, 1851-1889 / Alan E. Leviton and Michele L. Aldrich -- Travel as a predictor of scientific innovation : the corroborating case of George Gaylord Simpson -- William Dampier : pre-Linnean explorer, naturalist, buccaneer / Gary C. Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.