The heyday of natural history 1820-1870 / Lynn Barber.
By: Barber, Lynn [author.]
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BookPublisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 1980Description: 320 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 022401448X.Subject(s): Naturalists -- Biography | Natural history -- HistoryDDC classification: 500 Summary: The Heyday of Natural History is a witty and entertaining account of the popular passion for natural history which lasted from about 1820 to 1870. Every Victorian drawing-room, it seemed, boasted a fern case, a shell collection, and an aquarium; every well-brought-up young lady could reel off the names of twenty different ferns and fungi. 'Evenings at the Microscope' or magic lantern lectures on the Life History of the Bee were among the most fashionable forms of after-dinner entertainment, and all the newspapers ran natural history columns in which readers debated the burning issues of whether swallows could hibernate, or whether toads could live for centuries immured in blocks of stone. Clergymen dreamed of writing natural histories of their parishes in imitation of Gilbert White, and artisans hoarded their pennies to buy the Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer.". -- Inside cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Heyday of Natural History is a witty and entertaining account of the popular passion for natural history which lasted from about 1820 to 1870. Every Victorian drawing-room, it seemed, boasted a fern case, a shell collection, and an aquarium; every well-brought-up young lady could reel off the names of twenty different ferns and fungi. 'Evenings at the Microscope' or magic lantern lectures on the Life History of the Bee were among the most fashionable forms of after-dinner entertainment, and all the newspapers ran natural history columns in which readers debated the burning issues of whether swallows could hibernate, or whether toads could live for centuries immured in blocks of stone. Clergymen dreamed of writing natural histories of their parishes in imitation of Gilbert White, and artisans hoarded their pennies to buy the Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer.". -- Inside cover.
CIT Module ARTS 9006 - Supplementary reading.