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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 […]

978-1-906267-11-7 Jameson 1854 Handbook to the Courts of Modern Sculpture

Courts of Modern Sculpture (Crystal Palace Guide 14) | EGP

An inventory for the statues and sculptures displayed in the Crystal Palace and Park. It’s a celebration of modern sculpting, 17th to 19th century, with English work set alongside French, German, and Italian masters. Individual […]

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 […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

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

One Hundred and One Mendelians – Buttolph (2008)

Descended from Darwin – Context for the Evolutionary Synthesis

Exploring the Borderlands of Evolutionary Synthesis

Using LLMs to query 1939 International Genetical Congress

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

Punch 1855 Cartoon Dreaming of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Punch 1855 Cartoon Visiting Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

The Country of the Iguanodon, by Gideon Mantell – Two Versions

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

History of Science

Shakespeare and Science: Biology, Physics, Chemistry and More from the Bard | EGP

Pro-Evolution Magazine “Evolution: A Journal of Nature,” 1927-1938

Phrenology Consultation with Professor Cross

UNESCO: Its Purpose and Philosophy (Julian Huxley) | EGP

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

Guide to Crystal Palace and Park from 1871 | EGP

Courts of Modern Sculpture (Crystal Palace Guide 14) | EGP

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