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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 […]

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 […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Descended from Darwin – Context for the Evolutionary Synthesis

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

Ernst Mayr and the Biology of Birds Exhibit at AMNH

New Evidence on Dobzhansky 1936 “Jesup” lectures

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

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Punch 1855 Cartoon Dreaming of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

Brock’s Illuminations 1906 Connected with Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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

Pterodactyl statues in Crystal Palace Dinosaurs | missing

History of Science

Music of the Stars – Live Performance Celebrating History of Astronomy

Eoörnis pterovelox gobiensis (Eoornis) | EGP

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

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

Phrenology Consultation with Professor Cross

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Alhambra Court (Crystal Palace Guide 3) | EGP

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

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