Ecology Beginning with the Botanists

The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 . By Sharon E. Kingsland . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2005. 325 pp. $50, £33.50. ISBN 0-8018-8171-4. The author explores the course of ecology in the United States from its origins in the 1890s through the changing intellectual and cultural environments of the 20th century.