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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

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

Evolution: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 1 | EGP

Descended from Darwin – Context for the Evolutionary Synthesis

Columbia Biological Series, 1894-1974

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

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

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

George Baxter and the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Guide to Crystal Palace and Park from 1871 | EGP

Pterodactyl statues in Crystal Palace Dinosaurs | missing

History of Science

Snouters, by Harald Stumpke (actually, Gerolf Steiner)

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

Edward Turner was a Creole. So what?

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

Phrenology Consultation with Professor Cross

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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