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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
- Patrick Matthew
- Francis Galton
Botany
- Victorian Botany (overview/sitemap)
- Introduction
- Classification in Victorian Botany
- The Horticultural Revolution, or the American Lily (and the Empire) Writes Back
- Review of Elizabeth Hope Chang's Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century
Bacteriology and bacteriologists
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
- The Authorship of Gray’s Anatomy
- Vivisection
Related Material
- Victorian Natural History Museums and the Display of Knowledge
- The Victorians and Animals, III: Studying
Created 1 October 2019
Last modified 24 March 2023