Inventing Canada: Early Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation, Suzanne Zeller, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1987. Pp 356, ill., index. ISBN 0-8020-2644-3 (cloth), 0-8020-6606-2 (paper). / Scienza e colonialismo nel Canada ottocentesco, Clelia Pighetti, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1984. Pp 318, index. ISBN 88-222-3234-8. Lire 40.000. / Shaping Science and Industry: A History of Australia's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1926-49, C.B. Schedvin, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1987. Pp xix + 374, ill., index. ISBN 0-04-909036-4.

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Inventing Canada: Early Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation, Suzanne Zeller, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1987. Pp 356, ill., index. ISBN 0-8020-2644-3 (cloth), 0-8020-6606-2 (paper).Scienza e colonialismo nel Canada ottocentesco, Clelia Pighetti, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1984. Pp 318, index. ISBN 88-222-3234-8. Lire 40.000.Shaping Science and Industry: A History of Australia's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1926-49, C.B. Schedvin, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1987. Pp xix + 374, ill., index. ISBN 0-04-909036-4.

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Richard A. Jarrell
Science Studies Department of Atkinson College, York University

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A review of the journal Scientia Canadensis

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Volume 12, Number 2 (35), Fall–Winter 1988, p. 151–154

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