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Harmony of Colours as Exemplified in the Exhibition, by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1851)

Harmony of Colours as Exemplified in the Great Exhibition, by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1851)

London in 1851 was site of the Great Exhibition. Formally, it was titled, “The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations“. The press focused attention on the giant glass house containing the […]

Textile Machinery in Great Exhibition 1851 title page

Textile Machinery of the Great Exhibition (1851) by Lewis D.B. Gordon

London in 1851 was site of the Great Exhibition. Formally, it was titled, “The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations“. The press focused attention on the giant glass house containing the […]

On the Vegetable World as Contributing to the Great Exhibition by Edward Forbes, Professor of Botany, King’s College, London, Etc., 8 pages (1851)

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

London in 1851 was site of the Great Exhibition. Formally, it was titled, “The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations“. The press focused attention on the giant glass house containing the […]

150,000,000 B.C. - The Prehistoric Monsters of Crystal Palace - rare 1968 pamphlet features this photograph of the standing Iguanodon in camouflage painting.

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

“150,000,000 B.C.” is a rare pamphlet about the Crystal Palace dinosaurs and other statues by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins created in the 1850s in Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham. It was published by the Greater London Council […]

Karl Pearson Given Centenary Celebration at UCL, 1957

Karl Pearson (1857-1936) was given the centenary celebration at University College London in 1957. This was organised by his successor as Head of the Department of Statistics (and son), Professor Egon Pearson. The event included […]

Otter diorama in James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2013.

Newton Horace Winchell’s History of Geological Surveys in Minnesota (1889)

Newton Horace Winchell (1939-1914) had a profound effect on the size and shape of geological surveys in the American midwest. His 1889 History of Geological Surveys in Minnesota provides a good synopsis of, and some […]

Karl Pearson, 1910, University College London

Student Satire Aimed at Karl Pearson’s 1904 Eugenics Lecture

Historians of eugenics have been slow to research criticisms of eugenics from within research and learning communities. A notable exception is Ewa Barbara Luczak’s (2022) Mocking Eugenics: American Culture Against Scientific Hatred. (Also look for […]

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Harmony of Colours as Exemplified in the Great Exhibition, by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1851)

Textile Machinery of the Great Exhibition (1851) by Lewis D.B. Gordon

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

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

Karl Pearson Given Centenary Celebration at UCL, 1957

Newton Horace Winchell’s History of Geological Surveys in Minnesota (1889)

Student Satire Aimed at Karl Pearson’s 1904 Eugenics Lecture

History of Botany at University College London (UCL) – First 100 years

Did You Say ‘Alligator’? Mystery Animal Outside St Paul’s Cathedral

Evolution of Man Exhibit in Horniman Museum