Abstract

This volume is a picture book presenting 440 photographs of more than 80 Max Planck Institutes and research sites of the Max‐Planck‐Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften . As such it represents a continuation of Glenys Gill and Dagmar Klenke's Institut im Bild, Volume 1: Bauten der Kaiser‐Wilhelm‐Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften , which, along with several other associated volumes of this series on the Kaiser‐Wilhelm‐Gesellschaft and the MPG, I recently reviewed in Isis . The photographs run the gamut from the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt in Göttingen to the Institut für Züchtungsforschung in Kreis Hameln. The vast majority of the photographs show the exteriors of institute buildings or an institute as a whole; there are, by contrast, only a small number of photographs of a given institute's floor plans, of a building's interior, or of individual scientists. In conjunction with the other volumes in this series, the present volume constitutes a useful source for appreciating the development of the KWG and MPG