History of Science

I’m a historian of science. This category is for posts covering material in this subject area.

Case 91 Evolution - Heredity - Mendelism | Evidences of Evolution exhibit | Horniman Museum
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Heredity and Mendelism Display in Horniman Museum

The “Heredity – Mendelism” display occupies case 91 of the Evidences of Evolution exhibit in the Natural History Gallery of Horniman Museum. This photo gallery presents close-up detail for this display, with apologies for the […]
Amazonian Rainforest in Aquarium in Horniman Museum
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Aquarium in Horniman Museum

Photo gallery for the Aquarium in Horniman Museum. The elements focusing on British coastal life mention the work on Philip Henry Gosse, whose advocacy of the aquarium and vivarium helped to launch a mid-Victorian craze […]
Evolution of the Horse display in Evidences of Evolution exhibit in Natural History Gallery in Horniman Museum
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Evolution of the Horse Display in Horniman Museum

The “Evolution of the Horse” display occupies cases 84-86 of the Evidences of Evolution exhibit in the Natural History Gallery of Horniman Museum. This post presents a photo gallery.   Evolution of the Horse display All […]
Long-tailed kingfisher in Survey of Birds in Natural History Gallery in Horniman Museum
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Survey of Birds Exhibit in Horniman Museum

Survey of Birds exhibit in the Natural History Gallery in Horniman Museum. This post presents a photo gallery. Cases associated with the Survey of Birds exhibit cluster on the north and west sides of the Natural History […]
Locomotion in Animals exhibit in Natural History Gallery in Horniman Museum
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Locomotion of Animals Exhibit in Horniman Museum

The Locomotion of Animals exhibit occupies cases 11-29 in the Natural History Gallery of Horniman Museum. This post presents a photo gallery. The museum published a visitor’s handbook to accompany the displays. It had two editions, […]
Red Squirrel in Defences of Animals in Natural History Gallery in Horniman Museum
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Defences of Animals Exhibit in Horniman Museum

Defences of Animals Exhibit in the Natural History Gallery in Horniman Museum. This post presents a photo gallery. The museum published a visitor’s handbook to accompany Locomotion of Animals. Henry Neal Milligan FZS (1882–1967) wrote the […]
Introductory panels for Survey of Animal Kingdom exhibit in Natural History Gallery in Horniman Museum
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Survey of the Animal Kingdom Exhibit in Horniman Museum

Survey of the Animal Kingdom exhibit in the Natural History Gallery in Horniman Museum aims to present representative examples from all major groups of animals. In essence, this is an object-based textbook of zoological classification. […]
Detail from Embryology case. Evidences of Evolution exhibit in Natural History Gallery in Horniman Museum, London
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Evidences of Evolution Exhibit in Horniman Museum

The Evidences of Evolution exhibit in the Natural History Gallery at Horniman Museum and Gardens presents British evolutionary studies as it stood in the early 1920s. The exhibit builds on an earlier Horniman display, “History of […]
Biodynamica - Basile J. Luyet from volume 1, 1934-1938
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Biodynamica, published by Basile J. Luyet

Historians of the synthesis period in evolutionary studies, aka evolutionary synthesis, are deeply familiar with the Columbia Biological Series. This monograph series included key texts for the American evolutionist community, including Theodosius Dobzhansky’s (1937) Genetics […]