The Sociable Sciences

Patience A. Schell Chair of Hispanic Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. She is the author of Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City (2003), and co-editor of The Women's Revolution in Mexico: 1910-1953 (2007) and New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico (2012).

Introduction. Friendship, Science and Chilean Nature 1. The Making of a Naturalist 2. Chile and the Scientific Imagination 3. Making Friends in Chile 4. Darwin, Gay and the Utility of Chile 5. The Prussian Connection 6. A New Naturalist in Town 7. Expanding the Web 8. At the End of Their Days Epilogue: Reflections on the Life of a Fly Catcher