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Crystal Palace and Park, Sydenham. 1854. From postcard

Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park [1856 edition] (Crystal Palace Guide 1) | EGP

This visitor’s guide to Crystal Palace — including detailed descriptions and many illustrations — offers a comprehensive overview of the glasshouse and pleasure park, together with descriptions of the special courts and galleries. It also […]

Ethnology is at the heart of Crystal Palace Guide number 13

Natural History Department: Ethnology, Zoology, Botany (Crystal Palace Guide 13) | EGP

The “Natural History Court” had two organising themes. First, ethnology – a speciality in anthropology emphasising comparisons between human cultures – was a new discipline in the 1850s. Displays included material from thirteen exotic human groups […]

978-1-906267-11-7 Jameson 1854 Handbook to the Courts of Modern Sculpture

Courts of Modern Sculpture (Crystal Palace Guide 14) | EGP

An inventory for the statues and sculptures displayed in the Crystal Palace and Park. It’s a celebration of modern sculpting, 17th to 19th century, with English work set alongside French, German, and Italian masters. Individual […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Columbia Biological Series, 1894-1974

Evolution: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 1 | EGP

Society for the Study of Speciation: Bibliographic Analysis Using LLM

Biodynamica, published by Basile J. Luyet

One Hundred and One Mendelians – Buttolph (2008)

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Studio for Crystal Palace Dinosaurs: Enter The Extinct Animals Model-Room

Punch 1855 Cartoon Visiting Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Why Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Created Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Crystal Palace Company – First Annual General Meeting 1853

Queen Victoria Visited Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

History of Science

On the Vegetable World as Contributing to the Great Exhibition, by Edward Forbes (1851)

Edward Turner was a Creole. So what?

Charles Darwin – Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1890 second edition)

John Edmonstone: References from Charles Darwin

George Carpenter’s 1894 Essay on Collections to Illustrate Evolution and Geographical Distribution of Animals

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Punch 1855 Cartoon Dreaming of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park [1856 edition] (Crystal Palace Guide 1) | EGP

Natural History Department: Ethnology, Zoology, Botany (Crystal Palace Guide 13) | EGP

Courts of Modern Sculpture (Crystal Palace Guide 14) | EGP