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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 […]

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 […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

George Gaylord Simpson’s “Night Thoughts on Leaving the American Museum of Natural History”

George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984) bibliography

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

Using LLMs to query 1939 International Genetical Congress

Columbia Biological Series, 1894-1974

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

Punch 1855 Cartoon Dreaming of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

Guide to Crystal Palace and Park from 1871 | EGP

Brock’s Illuminations 1906 Connected with Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

History of Science

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

George Carpenter’s 1894 Essay on Collections to Illustrate Evolution and Geographical Distribution of Animals

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

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

New Evidence on Dobzhansky 1936 “Jesup” lectures

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Alhambra Court (Crystal Palace Guide 3) | EGP

Italian Court (Crystal Palace Guide 7) | EGP

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