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Long-tailed kingfisher in Survey of Birds in Natural History Gallery in Horniman Museum

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

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

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

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

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 […]

George Gaylord Simpson, 1956 (courtesy American Philosophical Society Library).

Patricide in the Repeated Assassination of George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson was the undisputed American heavy-weight in macro-evolutionary theory prior to paleobiology’s disciplinary formation in the 1970s. Memory of Simpson’s intellectual influence on this next generation of thinkers is tied intimately to aggressive […]

Charles Darwin's Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Penguin Classics), 1890 second edition, edited by Professor Joe Cain and Dr Sharon Messenger ISBN 9780141439440

Reading Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwin’s research interests – a central pillar of his ‘human’ series. This book engaged some […]

Biodynamica - Basile J. Luyet from volume 1, 1934-1938

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 […]

Dunn in Germany 1928, in Dunn Papers, folder: “Photographs #1”. Courtesy of APS Library.

The Situation in Genetics: Leslie Clarence Dunn’s 1927 Russian Tour

In 2003, I co-authored publication of a transcription of Leslie Clarence Dunn‘s 1927 report on genetics research facilities in Russia. This appeared in the Mendel Newsletter, published by the American Philosophical Society Library as Joe Cain […]

Sergei Chetverikkov, Russian population geneticist

Sergei Sergeevich Chetverikov (1880-1959) Russian population geneticist

Sergeĭ Sergeevich Chetverikov (=Tschetwerikoff) was a Russian entomologist, an expert on butterflies, and a pioneer of population geneticists. Born into a well-educated, professional family, Chetverikov entered the University of Moscow in 1900, graduating six years […]