Letters: Don't Blame Florence

The Florence Nightingale-Mary Stanley controversy: some unpublished letters.

IN HER brief portrait of Mrs. Catherine Gladstone in 1956, Mrs. Georgina Battiscombe wrote that Mrs. Gladstone's efforts 'to be of some use in the [Crimean] war troubles' brought her into 'a most unfortunate collision' with Florence Nightingale when, under the influence of Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert, Mrs. Gladstone 'threw herself heart and soul ... into the good work of providing nurses for the mil...

Florence Nightingale in Rome. Letters written by Florence Nightingale in Rome in the winter of 1847–48

a "renaissance" conception of the Earth as an animated, organic being "generating" its diurnal rotation, the tides, and living creatures through its own "essential activity". Similarly, Hobbs rejected the attempts of many theorists of the Earth to make their accounts consistent with a literal interpretation of Genesis. In fact, the most remarkable aspect of this manuscript is its insistence tha...

Florence Nightingale

MARCEL FLORKIN, A history ofbiochemistry. Part III. History ofthe identification ofthe sources offree energy in organisms, Amsterdam, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1975, 8vo, pp. [xxi], 475, illus., Dfl. 130.00. ($54.25). Professor Florkin and Professor Elmer H. Stotz are editors of Comprehensive biochemistry, a 33-volume work still being published. This is volume 31 and the second of fou...

The Florence Declaration

Over 1,650 participants from 94 countries came together in Florence from 9-14 November 2014 for the 18 General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). 1300 technical proposals and the exchange between heritage specialists have culminated in the following Declaration of principles and recommendations on the value of cultural heritage and landscapes for promoting pe...

Florence R. Sabin, 1915