Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences


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Each volume comprises one or more monographs, many of which are issued also as separates.




A Selection of Highlights from the History of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-2005


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This work relates selected events in the history of the National Academy focusing on the terms of the various presidents from the first, Alexander D. Bache, the great grandson of Benjamin Franklin, to the most recent, Ralph Cicerone.




Administration for research


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Books of 1911-


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Books of 1912-


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American Forests


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"American Forests is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explore the impact of forestry on natural and human landscapes since the mid-nineteenth century. It has two main goals: to present some of the most compelling arguments that have guided our understanding of the complex and evolving relationship between trees and people in the United States, and to point out those aspects of this tangled interaction that we have yet fully to understand or to articulate."--Preface, ix.