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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 […]

978-1-906267-13-1. 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 […]

Raphael's The School of Athens, or Scuola di Atene, c. 1509-11

Italian Court (Crystal Palace Guide 7) | EGP

Catalogue for the Italian Court, one of the great courts in the 1854 Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Detailed description of the exhibition’s sculpture, facades, and paintings. Wyatt and Waring give a synoptic history of the […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Using LLMs to query 1939 International Genetical Congress

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

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

Exploring the Borderlands of Evolutionary Synthesis

Physiological Genetics: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 3 | EGP

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

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

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

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

Pterodactyl statues in Crystal Palace Dinosaurs | missing

History of Science

Eyewitness to the Brown Dog Affair

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

Darwinian Heritage on Gower Street at UCL

Nature of Gothic: A Chapter from The Stones of Venice (John Ruskin) | EGP

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

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

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

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

Italian Court (Crystal Palace Guide 7) | EGP