History of Ecological Sciences, Part 50: Formalizing Limnology, 1870s to 1920s

Part 57: Aspects of Limnology in America, 1930s to about 1990, Led by Hutchinson and Hasler

“…and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois (1925, 1929), then joined the University of Minnesota faculty in 1929, yet continued publishing on Illinois plankton until 1935 (Gunning :171–173). Victor Shelford, discussed in part 50 (:141–142), responded to his state's emphasis upon river limnology with instructions on Methods for the Study of Stream Communities (Shelford and Eddy ). The Illinois Natural History Survey continued to support limnological studies by its staff and by grants to graduate students at the state universities (Bennett :170–178).…”

“…One center is the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, on glaciated Lake Okoboji; its early history was summarized in Part 50 (Egerton :145). Its stone buildings were built by the Federal Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930s (Lannoo ).…”

“…The Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory, University of Toronto, and eventually, the Fisheries Research Board of Canada also conducted fishery and limnology research at the Great Lakes. (Collaboration between Ontario Fisheries and University of Toronto began in 1913, as discussed in part 50 (Egerton :146–147) An early Canadian limnologist, D(onald) S(trathearn) Rawson (1905–1961), was born near Toronto, and earned his academic degrees at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1926, M.A.…”

“…Part 50 described the founding of limnology and its worldwide development, from 1870s to 1920s (Egerton ). E. A. Birge and Chancy Juday in Wisconsin and August Thienemann in Germany remained active after the 1920s (Juday and Hasler :472–480, Thienemann :78–489, Frey , Elster :13–19, Egerton , :37–39), but their stories are not continued here, though their influence is mentioned.…”

History of Ecological Sciences, Part 52: Symbiosis Studies

“…With the rise of four ecological sciences by the early 1900s (Egerton 2013 d , 2014a, Egerton b, c), followed by ecological societies founded in Britain and North America, it becomes less essential to follow here the overall development of animal and plant parasitologies. Therefore, only a few (mostly American) aspects of that story are told here.…”