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Crystal Palace and Park, Sydenham. 1854. From postcard

Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park [1856 edition] (Crystal Palace Guide 1) | EGP

This visitor’s guide to Crystal Palace — including detailed descriptions and many illustrations — offers a comprehensive overview of the glasshouse and pleasure park, together with descriptions of the special courts and galleries. It also […]

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 […]

Joshua Reynolds two statues in courtyard of Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London

Portrait Gallery (Crystal Palace Guide 2) | EGP

This guide to the Portrait Gallery in Crystal Palace lists names of those chosen for display, plus biographical information. In effect, this offers a directory of those held in high esteem by mid-Victorian society. It’s […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Ernst Mayr and the Biology of Birds Exhibit at AMNH

Sergei Sergeevich Chetverikov (1880-1959) Russian population geneticist

Columbia Biological Series, 1894-1974

Joseph Henry Woodger (1894-1981) Papers at University College London (UCL)

Evolution: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 1 | EGP

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Brock’s Illuminations 1906 Connected with Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

New Crystal Palace at Sydenham – 1852 – First Look

Queen Victoria Visited Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

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

History of Science

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

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

What’s Wrong With Fisher? He Was A Eugenicist

Karl Pearson Given Centenary Celebration at UCL, 1957

Darwin in London – Commemorative Plaques and Family Baptism Records

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Reverie at the Crystal Palace – 1854 poster in Punch magazine

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park [1856 edition] (Crystal Palace Guide 1) | EGP

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

Portrait Gallery (Crystal Palace Guide 2) | EGP