Preface / Frederic L. Holmes
Research schools and their histories / John W. Servos
Tacit knowledge and school formation / Kathryn M. Olesko
National styles?: French and English chemistry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Mary Jo Nye
Group research in German chemistry: Kolbe's Marburg and Leipzip institutes / Alan J. Rocke
Vision studies in Germany: Helmholtz versus Hering / R. Steven Turner
W.H. Perkin, Jr. at Manchester and Oxford: from Irwell to Isis / Jack Morrell
Spain's first school of physics: Blas Cabrera's Laboratorio de Investigaciones Físicas / José M. Sánchez-Ron and Antoni Roca-Rosell
The Comstock Research School in Evolutionary Entomology / Pamela M. Henson
Clementsian ecologists: the internal dynamics of a research school / Joel B. Hagen
Sir George Darwin and a British school of geophysics / David Kushner
Research schools and new directions in the historiography of science / Gerald L. Geison.