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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 […]

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, […]

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

One Hundred and One Mendelians – Buttolph (2008)

Regular Contact with Anyone Interested: Documents of Society for the Study of Speciation | EGP

Society for the Study of Speciation: Bibliographic Analysis Using LLM

Biodynamica, published by Basile J. Luyet

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

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

Why Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Created Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

George Baxter and the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Queen Victoria Visited Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

History of Science

One Hundred and One Mendelians – Buttolph (2008)

London’s Body-Snatching Business of the Resurrection Men Exposed, 1825

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

What Happened to Darwin’s House on Gower Street?

Biodynamica, published by Basile J. Luyet

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Reverie at the Crystal Palace – 1854 poster in Punch magazine

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Guide to Crystal Palace and Park from 1871 | EGP

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

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