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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 […]

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 […]

Patio de los Leones (Court of the Lions), Alhambra, Granada, Spain

Alhambra Court (Crystal Palace Guide 3) | EGP

The Alhambra and Romanesque Court was fantastically popular with visitors to the Crystal Palace. Author Owen Jones is the author. Special features/contents Included as appendices in the 1854 guide: Pasqual De Gayangos. An Historical Notice […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Society for the Study of Speciation: Bibliographic Analysis Using LLM

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

Haldane. Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection (1924-1934)

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

One Hundred and One Mendelians – Buttolph (2008)

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

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

Gideon Mantell’s 1851 Guide to Fossils at British Museum

New Year’s Eve Dinner in the Iguanodon at Crystal Palace 31 December 1853

Queen Victoria Visited Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

History of Science

Interview with Robert Evan Sloan (1929-2019)

Darwin in London – Commemorative Plaques and Family Baptism Records

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

Textile Machinery of the Great Exhibition (1851) by Lewis D.B. Gordon

Harmony of Colours as Exemplified in the Great Exhibition, by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1851)

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Italian Court (Crystal Palace Guide 7) | EGP

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

Alhambra Court (Crystal Palace Guide 3) | EGP