Stories
- Article
Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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The men who meddled with nature
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Naturalists
Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.7152- Books
- Online
Naturalists of the frontier / by Samuel Wood Geiser.
Geiser, Samuel Wood, 1890-1983.Date: [1929?-]- Books
Naturalists at sea : scientific travellers from Dampier to Darwin / Glyn Williams.
Williams, GlyndwrDate: [2013]- Books
Naturalists and experimentalists : the genotype and the phenotype / Garland E. Allen.
Allen, Garland EDate: 1979- Books
Naturalists in paradise : Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon / John Hemming.
Hemming, John, 1935-Date: 2015