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Science in the American Southwest: A Topical History. By George E. Webb. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. xxi + 271 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $48.00.)
      The central argument in this useful survey is that the explosion in scientific activity in the American Southwest after World War II rested on a foundation of previous enthusiasm and expertise, marked by, at least, embryonic institutional development, from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. George Webb, author of an excellent biography of astronomer and dendrochronoligst A. E. Douglass and a thorough history of the controversy over evolutionary thought in America, here reprises both of those themes while spreading his net more widely. The results are mixed. . . .
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