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- Title
From Laboratory Lichens to Colonial Symbiosis. Melchior Treub Bringing German Evolutionary Plant Embryology to Dutch Indonesia, 1880-1909.
- Authors
WILLE, ROBERT-JAN
- Abstract
In this article I demonstrate that Buitenzorg formed an important site for developmental botany or plant embryology. The research station at Buitenzorg was not only a place for colonial big science, but also a hotspot for new transformations in biology. This article focuses on the evolutionary science practice of Buitenzorg's director Melchior Treub and on how he adapted a German style of laboratory biology to the reality of the colonial tropics. In Buitenzorg, plant embryology evolved from a European taxonomic Hilfswissenschaft into a leading sub-discipline of colonial agricultural science. Studying cooperation in nature, Treub was extra keen on experimenting with new forms of political cooperation in the empire.
- Subjects
EMBRYOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGISTS; SYMBIOSIS (Psychology); PLANTS; TAXONOMY
- Publication
Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire des Sciences et des Universités, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 4, p191
- ISSN
1876-9055
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18352/studium.10178