Stations and other places -- Naples: indoor sea creatures -- Wimereux: tide pool science -- From Wimereux to the Republic: individuals and their environment -- Plön: a lake microcosm -- Rossitten: moving birds -- Brussels: fieldwork in a Metropolitan Museum -- Conclusion: residents in the field
Summary
This volume studies the early history of field stations and the role these played in the rise of zoological place-based research in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. It explores the material and social context in which field stations arose, the actual research that was produced in these places, the epistemic claims that were developed there, and the rhetoric strategies that were deployed to convince others these claims made sense. In short, it analyses the intricate activities that enabled the zoologist to perform science in the animal's natural habitat
