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UNESCO: Its Purpose and Philosophy
UNESCO was created “to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science, and culture.” No one spoke with greater authority about the plan for UNESCO...
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The Brown Dog in Battersea Park
Anti-vivisection campaigners unveiled their memorial to a little brown dog in 1906 in Battersea, London. That dog’s treatment had been the centre of a libel trial making London medical schools...
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Handbook to the Marine Aquarium
This handbook was one of the first manuals with practical instructions for constructing, stocking, and maintaining a tank, and for collecting plants and animals. Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) coined the...
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Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World
Richard Owen’s original guide to the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and displayed in Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, London since 1854. These life-sized sculptures of prehistoric ‘monsters’...
Crystal Palace 1854 Guides
The 1851 “Great Exhibition” was an extraordinary success, located in Hyde Park, London, UK. After one season, the famous glasshouse – dubbed the “crystal palace” – was sold to a...
Brown Dog Affair
In 1906, anti-vivisection campaigners unveiled a memorial in Battersea, London, as a new weapon in their long-running propaganda war. A celebrated libel trial focused attention on the plight of one...
Sewall Wright’s lectures
Go inside the classroom What did famous scientists actually say when they taught courses in their specialties? What information did they, in fact, convey? How did they structure their thinking? To answer...
Famous Joke in Biology
Meet Eoörnis, the woofen-poof. As the author explains, ‘Through countless ages and successive civilizations this remarkable bird has been the symbol of speed, stamina, grace of line, proportion of members, and...