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paper reprinted in this collection, argued that, even as late as 1967, the Darwinian aspects of plant ecology had 'been largely neglected' and that the subject developed by Schimper and Warming (and their American disciples) was, 'a changeling child'. On a more minor point, in writing that, 'for botanists...the ecologist was a kind of "outdoor physiologist"', Kingsland is in danger of accepting the rhetorical flourishes of the early ecologists at their face value. Those plant physiologists who took notice of what the ecologists were doing were not, by and large, favourably impressed with the claims, made by Clements for example, that ecologists 'studied adaptation and community evolution in the field using the same rigorous methods that the physiologist employed in the laboratory'. One is struck by how diverse the papers making up the different sections are. This variety and pluralism may make stimulating reading for the student but it also illustrates that writing about ecology as if it were a unitary subject with a single history is, to some extent, to perpetuate a fiction. Indeed when one considers that this volume was edited under the auspices of a committee of the Ecological Society of America, who sponsored its publication, one might conjecture that the real value of this sort of historical exercise to ecologists is that it encourages the retrospective construction of a 'common intellectual structure' for a field which remains obstinately fragmented. The yearning of the pioneer ecologists that their subject would one day become a 'mature, predictive science' (p. 614) still haunts these pages.