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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 […]

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs | Professor Joe Cain

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, […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Historical Significance of George Gaylord Simpson’s Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944)

Biodynamica, published by Basile J. Luyet

Evolution: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 1 | EGP

George Gaylord Simpson’s “Night Thoughts on Leaving the American Museum of Natural History”

Columbia Biological Series, 1894-1974

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

Brock’s Illuminations 1906 Connected with Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Why Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Created Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Punch 1855 Cartoon Visiting Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

History of Science

No Ordinary Space: UCL Grant Museum | EGP

Karl Pearson Given Centenary Celebration at UCL, 1957

Ernst Mayr and the Biology of Birds Exhibit at AMNH

Scopes Monkey Trial 1925 – Complete Trial Transcripts

Eyewitness to the Brown Dog Affair

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Portrait Gallery (Crystal Palace Guide 2) | EGP

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

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