Papers presented at a bicentennial conference at the Feb. 1976 Boston meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; cosponsored by Section L of the Association and the History of Science Society. Includes bibliographical references.

Reflections on 200 years of science in the United States / Nathan Reingold -- Paradigm lost / William H. Goetzmann -- Americans abroad: science and cultural nationalism in the early nineteenth century / Bruce Sinclair -- Astronomy in antebellum America / Deborah Jean Warner -- Science, public policy, and popular precepts: Alexander Dallas Bache and Alfred beach as symbolic adversaries / Robert Post -- The American scientist in higher education, 1820-1910 / Stanley M. Guralnick -- Rationalization and reality in shaping American agricultural research, 1875-1914 / Charles E. Rosenberg -- From the Grand Canyon to the Marianas Trench: the earth sciences after Darwin / Steve Pyne -- Industrial research laboratories / Kendall Birr -- The rise and spread of the classical school of heredity, 1910-1930: development and influence of the Mendelian chromosome theory / Garland E. Allen -- American foundations as patrons of science: the commitment to individual research / Stanley Coben -- Warren Weaver and the Rockefeller Foundation program in molecular biology: a case study in the management of science / Robert E. Kohler, Jr. -- The physics business in America, 1919-1940: a statistical reconnaissance / Spencer R. Weart -- Science agencies in World War II: the OSRD and its challengers / Carroll Pursell -- Academic science and the military: the years since the Second World War / Harvey M. Sapolsky.