Contents -- List of Illustrations -- William F. Ganong -- 2.1 Charles O. Whitman -- 2.2 Charles C. Adams -- 2.3 Collecting expedition, Woods Hole -- 2.4 Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution -- 2.5 University of Pennsylvania vivarium -- 2.6 Field station, Gull Lake -- 2.7 Carnegie Institution Desert Laboratory -- 3.1 Charles B. Davenport -- 3.2 Carl H. Eigenmann at Donaldson's Cave -- 3.3 Student fieldwork, Syracuse Lake -- 3.4 Henry F. Nachtrieb and "Megalops" -- 3.5 "Driftwood Lake" (Sister Lake) -- 3.6 Henry C. Cowles and Homer L. Shantz -- 4.1 Counting a quadrat, Mount Garfield -- 4.2 A chart quadrat -- 4.3 Eggbeater psychrometer -- 4.4 Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday, Lake Mendota -- 4.5 Atmometers -- 4.6 Phytometer garden, Pike's Peak -- 4.7 Edith and Frederic E. Clements -- 4.8 Stations in the Santa Catalina Mountains -- 5.1 Francis B. Sumner, Woods Hole -- 5.2 Francis B. Sumner with "Perodipus" -- 5.3 Mexico, William Tower's field sites -- 5.4 Arthur Banta, Cold Spring Harbor -- 5.5 Tahiti, topographic map -- 5.6 Victor E. Shelford, University of Chicago -- 5.7 Field stations, Sierra Nevada -- 5.8 Harvey Hall's field garden -- 5.9 Taxonomy of a species group -- 5.10 Jens Clausen's field gardens -- 6.1 Conway MacMillan -- 6.2 William F. Ganong -- 6.3 Henry C. Cowles and students -- 6.4 Henry A. Gleason -- 6.5 Edith and Frederic E. Clements, Pike's Peak -- 6.6 Francis B. Sumner -- 6.7 Forrest Shreve -- 7.1 Glacier Bay, Alaska -- 7.2 Salton Sea -- 7.3 Lodgepole pine forest, Estes Park -- 7.4 Concentric glacial bog -- 7.5 Glacial physiography, Lake Michigan -- 7.6 Indiana dunes -- 7.7 Fossil beaches, Lake Michigan -- 7.8 Lakeshore stream series -- 7.9 San Francisco Mountains -- 7.10 Humboldt Bay research site -- 7.11 Santa Rosa Island -- 8.1 Biogeography of subspecies ring -- 8.2 Double invasion of an island -- 8.3 Edgar Anderson.

8.4 Cajun farms, Mississippi Delta -- 8.5 Distribution of hybrids -- 8.6 Seasonal fauna, Cedar Creek Bog -- 8.7 Cedar Creek Bog, Minnesota -- 8.8 Transect, Cedar Creek Bog -- 8.9 Vegetation map, Great Smoky Mountains -- 9.1 Silver Springs, Florida -- 9.2 Silver Springs sampling sites -- 9.3 Sonoran desert expeditions -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Borders and History -- Field and Lab in Biology -- Lab and Field as Place -- Borders and Frontiers -- An Overview, with Caveats -- Chapter 2: A New Natural History -- The New Natural History -- New Naturalists and Educational Reform -- Labscapes: Marine Stations and Biological Farms -- Labscapes: Vivaria and Field Stations -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Border Crossings -- The Rise and Decline of Biometry -- Ecology: Physiology or Natural History? -- Up "Brush Creek" and Back Again -- Guardians of the Faith: Genetics and Physiology -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Taking Nature's Measure -- Trust in Numbers: Quadrats -- Taking Nature's Measure: Instruments -- Plant-Machine: Atmometers and Phytometers -- Instrumental Eye: The Camera -- Making the Place Right: Forrest Shreve -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Experiments in Nature -- Experimental Evolution -- Shifting Ground: Field and Lab -- Experiments in Nature: Ecology -- Experimental Taxonomy: Harvey M. Hall and Jens Clausen -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Troubled Lives -- Midlife Crises: Ecology -- Ends and Means: Experimental Evolution -- Identity -- Genetics, True and False -- Physiologists and the Field -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Nature's Experiments -- Nature's Experiments -- Places in Process -- Reading Places -- Physiographic Ecology -- Panoramas -- Evolution -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Border Practices -- Geographical Speciation: Ernst Mayr -- Hybrid Introgression: Edgar Anderson -- Ecosystem Ecology: Raymond Lindeman -- Gradients and Continua: Robert Whittaker.

Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Border Biology: A Transect -- The Border Zone: A Bird's-Eye View -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.