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George Baxter print showing Crystal Palace 1854 Sydenham view from the north

Guide to Crystal Palace and Park from 1871 | EGP

The Crystal Palace Company published a Guide to Crystal Palace and Park nearly every year in the first few decades after opening their attraction in Sydenham in 1854. These guides described main attractions – especially […]

978-1-906267-13-1. Wyatt and Waring. 1854. The Byzantine and Romanesque Court in the Crystal Palace

Byzantine and Romanesque Court (Crystal Palace Guide 4) | EGP

Detailed description of this exhibition, together with a brief survey of architectural and design history of Byzantium and other parts of Christian Europe, including German and French Romanesque. Additional notes are provided on Irish art […]

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 […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Joseph Henry Woodger (1894-1981) Papers at University College London (UCL)

Patricide in the Repeated Assassination of George Gaylord Simpson

Sewall Wright Taught Me series: Evolution, Genetics, Physiological Genetics | EGP

Biodynamica, published by Basile J. Luyet

Ernst Mayr and the Biology of Birds Exhibit at AMNH

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

New Crystal Palace at Sydenham – 1852 – First Look

Queen Victoria Visited Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

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

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

History of Science

Francis Galton’s Eugenics Record Office on Gower Street (ERO-Galton)

Robert Fitzroy is buried in Upper Norwood Cemetery (photographs)

What Happened to Darwin’s House on Gower Street?

Did You Say ‘Alligator’? Mystery Animal Outside St Paul’s Cathedral

Darwinian Heritage on Gower Street at UCL

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Crystal Palace Dinosaurs – Rare 1968 Pamphlet – 150,000,000 B.C.

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Guide to Crystal Palace and Park from 1871 | EGP

Byzantine and Romanesque Court (Crystal Palace Guide 4) | EGP

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