Victorian scientific naturalism : community, identity, continuity / edited by Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]

viii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction / Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman -- Forging friendships -- "The Great O. versus the Jermyn St. Pet": Huxley, Falconer, and Owen on paleontological method / Gowan Dawson -- Evolutionary naturalism on high: the victorians sequester the Alps / Michael S. Reidy -- Paradox: the art of scientific naturalism / George Levine -- Institutional politics -- Huxley and the Devonshire Commission / Bernard Lightman -- Economies of scales: evolutionary naturalists and the victorian examination system / James Elwick -- Odd man out: was Joseph Hooker an evolutionary naturalist? / Jim Endersby -- Broader alliances -- Sunday lecture societies: naturalistic scientists, unitarians, and secularists unite against sabbatarian legislation / Ruth Barton -- The conduct of belief: agnosticism, the Metaphysical Society, and the formation of intellectual communities / Paul White -- Where naturalism and theism met: the uniformity of nature / Matthew Stanley -- New generations -- The fate of scientific naturalism: from public sphere to professional exclusivity / Theodore M. Porter -- The successors to the X Club? Late victorian naturalists and nature, 1869-1900 / Melinda Baldwin -- From agnosticism to rationalism: evolutionary biologists, the Rationalist Press Association, and early twentieth-century scientific naturalism /- Peter J. Bowler -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography of major works on scientific naturalism.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334) and index.