Corresponding interests: artisans and gentlemen in nineteenth-century natural history

Professional gentlemen: the professions in nineteenth-century Ontario

of similar trials in Wurttemburg are especially perspicacious on this point. In a completely different vein, Joel Peter Eigen's essay on insanity and English law during the period 1800-1840 also depicts a situation in which criminal or civil law could be tempered, a role that medicine would continue to play nearly a century later, as Barbara Brookes and Paul Roth found in their study of the Bou...

History of Science. Science in the Nineteenth Century

that show variations comparable to those seen among men and among apes of different species today. These variations accounted for some of the controversy of classification, especially when limited fossil material was available. In subsequent chapters the teeth, skulls and pelves are described in relation to other hominid or pongid fossils. The teeth of the australopithecines were hominoid in sh...

Scientists in nineteenth century Australia. A documentary history

Two nineteenth century surgeons.

the biggest problem in guerilla warfare and at one time we were carrying so many wounded on stretchers, with two men carrying, that there were few left to fight. Food was very scarce; we seemed to live on boiled billy goat-which tastes as the billy goat smells-and a rock hard maize bread "chicken mash," equally unpalatable. Vegetables were never seen. Later we could get sheep milk yogurt and in...

Nineteenth-century scientific instruments

The first thing to be said about this book is that it is an excellent survey of nineteenth-century scientific instruments. Its excellence lies in its value as a guide to the identification of objects. The volume is extremely well produced; the illustrations, which are mainly photographs of instruments, are first class; and Dr. Turner's detailed text irreproachably sound. The book is a general a...