Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
179-80
Natural History Museum
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | AH
's paternal grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley
, was a famous biologist who died just a year after his grandson's birth. When he was six Aldous attended, with his entire family, the unveiling of a... |
| Occupation | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
became the first Lady Superintendent of the new National School of Cookery
, temporarily housed in a series of sheds owned by the institution which later became the Natural History Museum
. Barker, Mary Anne. Colonial Memories. Smith, Elder, 1904. 240 |
| Reception | Mary Kingsley | The Natural History Museum
in South Kensington still holds specimens and letters that MK
sent to Dr Günther. Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin, 1986. 154 |
| Textual Features | Sara Maitland | Rachel, a paleontologist in her seventies (a curator at the Natural History Museum
in South Kensington), is faced by her own intellectual shift away from the Darwin
inian gradualism which she has always believed... |
Timeline
1863: Parliament approved the purchase of twelve...
National or international item
1863
Parliament approved the purchase of twelve acres of land at South Kensington (formerly part of the Exhibition site) as the site of the Natural History Museum
.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
410
1873: Construction of the present Natural History...
National or international item
1873
Construction of the present Natural History Museum began.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
410
1881: The Natural History Museum opened in South...
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1881
The Natural History Museum
opened in South Kensington as the British Museum (Natural History).
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
410
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
109
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
100, 144
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