Article ID: CBB000775035

From Farm and Family to Career Naturalist: The Apprenticeship of Vernon Bailey (2008)

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How are scientists made? How, as young adults, have they discovered a scientific vocation and career? Through formal schooling, typically; but in the field sciences also through practical apprenticeship-through work. This essay presents the story of a frontier farm lad who became a career naturalist as a hired collector of animal specimens in the American West. Family and work are the leitmotifs of Vernon Bailey's story. It was family farming-bringing in the hay and finding the cows-that connected Bailey's love of skilled outdoor work with a desire to know nature scientifically. Traveling and working with professional naturalists, he came to see himself as a professional as well. His socialization was less a replacement than a layering of two identities, family and career.

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Description On the apprenticeship experience of an American naturalist in the late 19th century.


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Authors & Contributors
Anderson, William D., Jr.
Bertucci, Paola
Boewe, Charles E.
Burckhardt, Richard W., Jr.
Burtt, Edward H., Jr.
Cohen, Alan
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Filson Club History Quarterly
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
University of Oklahoma
Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Broadway Books
Harvard University Press
Johns Hopkins University
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
Natural history
Naturalists
Correspondence and corresponding
Professions and professionalization
Conservation movement
Travel; exploration
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Ardinghelli, Maria Angela
Bailey, Vernon O.
Barber, Mary Elizabeth
Bradbury, John
Brongniart, Adolphe-Théodore
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Early modern
Places
United States
France
Italy
Great Britain
Chile
Europe
Institutions
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
United States. Bureau of Biological Survey
Royal Entomological Society
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