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Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World (Crystal Palace Guide 15) | EGP

Richard Owen’s original guide to the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and displayed in Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, London since 1854. These life-sized sculptures of prehistoric “monsters” included dinosaurs, mammals, marine reptiles, […]

Joshua Reynolds two statues in courtyard of Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London

Portrait Gallery (Crystal Palace Guide 2) | EGP

This guide to the Portrait Gallery in Crystal Palace lists names of those chosen for display, plus biographical information. In effect, this offers a directory of those held in high esteem by mid-Victorian society. It’s […]

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 […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Exploring the Borderlands of Evolutionary Synthesis

Using LLMs to query 1939 International Genetical Congress

Sergei Sergeevich Chetverikov (1880-1959) Russian population geneticist

Biodynamica, published by Basile J. Luyet

George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984) bibliography

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World (Crystal Palace Guide 15) | EGP

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

Queen Victoria Visited Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Top Questions About New Year’s Eve Dinner in Iguanodon at Crystal Palace

Remembering Dinner in the Dinosaur: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’ 1862 Sketch

History of Science

Great Exhibition As a Lesson in Victorian Taste, by Ralph Nicholson Wornum (1851)

Last Message of William Jennings Bryan (Scopes Trial) | EGP

Sergei Sergeevich Chetverikov (1880-1959) Russian population geneticist

Snouters, by Harald Stumpke (actually, Gerolf Steiner)

Brown Dog and His Memorial (Battersea, London) | EGP

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Bernissart Iguanodons in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World (Crystal Palace Guide 15) | EGP

Portrait Gallery (Crystal Palace Guide 2) | EGP

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