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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 […]

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 […]

978-1-906267-11-7 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 […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

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

Using LLMs to query 1939 International Genetical Congress

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

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

George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984) bibliography

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

Gideon Mantell’s 1851 Guide to Fossils at British Museum

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

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

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

History of Science

No Ordinary Space: UCL Grant Museum | EGP

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

Science of the Great Exhibition, by Robert Hunt (1851)

Darwinian Heritage on Gower Street at UCL

Scopes Monkey Trial 1925 – Complete Trial Transcripts

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

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

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

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