Victorian Biology

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Biology and Evolution

• Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), leader of elite French science
• Evolutionary Theory before Darwin
• Charles Darwin
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• Francis Galton

Botany

• Victorian Botany (overview/sitemap)
• Introduction
• Classification in Victorian Botany
• The Horticultural Revolution, or the American Lily (and the Empire) Writes Back

Victorian Physiology, Anatomy, and Palaeontology

• The two Joseph Listers, father and son: perfecting the microsope, discovering shape of blood corpuscles, and discovering anesthesia
• Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), palaeontologist
• Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), founder of vertebrate palaeontology
• Richard Owen (1804-1892), philosophical anatomist & palaeontologist

Related Material

• Victorian Natural History Museums and the Display of Knowledge

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