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Crystal Palace in Sydenham. Undated postcard 61 showing glasshouse, gardens, and fountains.

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, Sydenham. Circa 1854. View from the Northside of the glasshouse. Image is Baxter process.

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 […]

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 […]

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)

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

Genetics: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 2 | EGP

New Evidence on Dobzhansky 1936 “Jesup” lectures

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

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Pterodactyl statues in Crystal Palace Dinosaurs | missing

Brock’s Illuminations 1906 Connected with Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

George Baxter and the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Why Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Created Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

New Crystal Palace at Sydenham – 1852 – First Look

History of Science

One Hundred and One Mendelians – Buttolph (2008)

On the Vegetable World as Contributing to the Great Exhibition, by Edward Forbes (1851)

Great Exhibition As a Lesson in Victorian Taste, by Ralph Nicholson Wornum (1851)

Darwinian Heritage on Gower Street at UCL

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

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Punch 1855 Cartoon Visiting Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

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

Italian Court (Crystal Palace Guide 7) | EGP

Guide to Crystal Palace and Park from 1871 | EGP