Life Sciences

This site documents the initial period of the discovery and development of insulin, 1920-1925, by presenting over seven thousand page images reproducing original documents ranging from laboratory notebooks and charts, correspondence, writings, and published papers to photographs, awards, clippings, scrapbooks, printed ephemera and artifacts. Drawing mainly on the Banting, Best and related collections housed at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and the Archives and Records Management Services at the University of Toronto, it also includes significant holdings from the Aventis Pasteur (formerly Connaught) Archives, and the personal collection of Dr. Henry Best.

Utilizing over 800 scanned documents, photographs, audio clips and video excerpts, this website narrates the breathless details of the pursuit of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. Scattered throughout the project are images of a number of very important and extremely rare items, all of which are held within The Valley Library's Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, and many of which have not been previously displayed. Also featured are two original documents hitherto unknown to scholars interested in this period. It is expected that this website will serve as a primary reference point for individuals interested in the history of DNA -- both researchers and lay people alike.

The KLI is an advanced research center in theoretical biology. Through its board members, fellows, and activities, the institute maintains strong ties to the University of Vienna.
In its name the institute pays homage to the Nobel laureate Konrad Lorenz, whose work laid the foundation of an evolutionary approach to mind and cognition, and in whose turn-of-the-century family mansion the KLI is located

JARED DIAMOND is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until recently he was Professor of Physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the widely acclaimed Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies, which also is the winner of Britain's 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.

The museum houses an extensive collection of scientifically important zoological material designated as being of outstanding national and international significance by Re:source (formerly the MGC).
As part of the Department of Zoology we are also home to a thriving research community.

The article presents the history of the Warsaw Zoological Collection, as well as institutions connected with it. The beginning of this collection stretches down to 1819 - the year in which a collection of ca 20.000 specimens of animals, mainly birds, was bought for the Zoological Cabinet of the Royal University of Warsaw. The Cabinet, together with the library, was organized and for 43 years managed by Feliks Pawel Jarocki. The finest period in the history of the Cabinet was in the 3rd quarter of XIX century under Wladyslaw Taczanowski's guidance, when many Polish Zoologists from the country and from abroad enriched it with their own collections. In 1887 a private Zoological Museum was created by the Branicki family with a rich collection of various vertebrates, mainly birds.

The Jane Goodall Institute advances the power of individuals to takeinformed and compassionate action to improve the environment for all living things. With Dr. Jane Goodall's words and example as guiding principles, the Institute inspires hope for a brighter future.

Perhaps more than any other contemporary American scientist Stephen Jay Gould has presented the modes, implications, benefits, and shortcomings of science to a literate public. As an inventive and productive scholar he has shaped and participated in crucial debates of the biological and geological sciences, particularly with regard to the theory of evolution, the interpretation of fossil evidence, and the meaning of diversity and change in biology. As the readership for his nearly twenty books and hundreds of essays, reviews, and articles has grown he has become one of the most popular and well-known writers and lecturers on scientific topics. He has distinguished himself by elaborating his critique of contemporary evolutionary theory via an eclectic range of discourse, deriving inspiration from his personal reflections across an astonishing array of historical and humanistic disciplines, popular culture, and sports.