Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. From second empire to third republic: the great scientific mutation
2. Fata morgana: positivism in nineteenth-century French biology
3. Biology in the University: the success of marine biology leads but to paradigm lost
4. The industrial connection of University science
5. Science in agriculture: an increasing role in the new land of plenty
6. Science in the catholic universities
7. Scientific publication: the flood of monographs, books, and journals unleashed by the new research imperative in schools and societies
8. Science funding in the twentieth century: laying the foundations of the science empire
9. The denouement of the 1930s: a new scientific function for the state
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
