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History of Science and the Culture of Print
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Natural History of Creation and other Evolutionary Writings
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Linnaeus to Darwin: Commentaries on the History of Biology and Geology
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467:‘Scrapbook Science: Composite Caricatures in Late Georgian England.’ In
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544:‘Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century’,
141:‘Nature’s Fancy: Charles Darwin and the Breeding of Pigeons.’
284:‘Edinburgh Lamarckians: Robert Jameson and Robert E. Grant.’
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53:, his award-winning study of the reception of the anonymous
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The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons
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56:Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
907:American expatriates in the United Kingdom
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624:Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day
617:Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day
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296:British Journal for the History of Science
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339:‘The Crisis of Nature.’ In
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