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Athenaeum Project

A searchable on-line database of reviews and reviewers from the Athenaeum newspaper.

David Livingstone Online

Livingstone Online is an ongoing project that provides access to the medical and scientific writings of the missionary, doctor and African explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873). it currently offers detailed transcriptions of many of his letters and aims to make all his medical and scientific writings freely available online. There is also have a complete catalogue of Livingstone's letters as well as a growing collection of essays concerning the historical contexts of Livingstone's life, works and writings.

Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical

The Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical (SciPer) project is jointly organised by the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield and the Division of History and Philosophy of Science in the School of Philosophy at the University of Leeds. It is run under the aegis of the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Sheffield, and is funded by the AHRB, the Leverhulme Trust, and the MHRA. The aim of the project is to identify and analyse the representation of science, technology and medicine, as well as the inter-penetration of science and literature, in the general periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900. Employing a highly interdisciplinary approach, it addresses not only the reception of scientific ideas in the general press, but also examines the creation of non-specialist forms of scientific discourse within a periodical format, and the ways in which they interact with the miscellany of other kinds of articles found in nineteenth-century periodicals.

Victoria Research Web

Resources for Victorian Research: a collection of resources assembled by the founder of the VICTORIA discussion list. Like VICTORIA, the VRW is dedicated to the scholarly study of nineteenth-century Britain, and to aiding researchers, teachers, and students in their investigations of any and all aspects of this fascinating period. VRW is intended to supply a handy set of tips and links to help Victorianists find the practical information they need, whether it’s an archive catalogue, a bibliography, a listserv address, a sample syllabus, a place to stay in London, or a journal’s submission guidelines. Some of these are materials we've assembled here, while others are links to websites across the Internet. The new facility for searching the VICTORIA archives puts at your fingertips over eight years' worth of scholarly discussion by Victorianists around the world, while other features include a portal to dozens of reviews of books of 19th-century interest and the ever-popular tips for planning a trip to Britain.

Victorian Studies on the Web

An indispensable source of information on every important publication from 1945 to 1999 on every field of Victorian Studies.

The Victorian Web

The Victorian Web, based at The University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore, began long before the days of the World Wide Web. It was originally based on materials developed by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, at Brown University to assist his students. Since it translation to the Web, the number of contributions from readers in Asia, Australia, and Europe have risen dramatically. It now contains a vast array of materials covering all aspects of Victorian life, literature and culture.

Joseph Banks Papers

The State Library of NSW (Sydney, Australia) has scanned in the papers of Sir Joseph Banks which are held in the Mitchell and Dixson collections. These amount to approximately 10,000 manuscript pages and include correspondence, principally letters received, but also reports, invoices and accounts, journals, plus a small quantity of maps, charts and watercolours. While many of these documents have been published in various works before, the collection is published here for the first time in facsimile, and extensively indexed.

Joseph Banks biographical information

Site contains brief biographical details about Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist and patron of science.

About Darwin

An excellent website devoted to the life and times of Charles Darwin, with lots of information, timelines, resources, pictures, bibliography of Darwin’s works, etc. And it’s growing all the time.

Darwin Correspondence Project

The Project exists to publish the definitive edition of letters to and from Charles Darwin, the most influential naturalist of the 19th century: when complete the series will comprise approximately 30 volumes.

The writings of Charles Darwin on the web

John van Wyhe’s suberb site provides a raidly growing selection of Darwin’s writings. While there are many electronic versions of various Darwin texts, this one is unique in that it is the only one that provides them in citable form with original page numbers and bibliographical details.

Robert Fortune

Robert Fortune, a traveller and plant collector, grew up near Edinburgh and after learning his trade moved to the city’s botanic garden. In 1842 he became superintendent of the hothouse department at the Horticultural Society’s garden in London and within a few months he was selected for the Society’s latest plant collecting expedition to China. This site contains further basic information about his life and travels.

Francis Galton

Francis Galton (1822-1911) was one of the most respected and influential British scientific advocate of schemes of hereditary improvement in the half-century or so after 1860. He was a pioneer of statistics as well as many other scientific techniques. This site gives extensive information about him, as well as texts of many of his papers.

Hooker Oak

In 1887 Annie E. K. Bidwell named an oak tree in honor of Hooker. She met him when he visited General and Mrs. Bidwell and stayed as a guest at their home, now one of California’s historic parks. (For more information including dates and details, see the park’s website. My thanks to Kim Weir for this information.) The oak was California State Historic Landmark No. 313 and was acclaimed to be the largest valley oak in the world before it fell on May 1, 1977. Age 326 years, height 105 feet, perimeter 481 feet. The stump and a plaque can be seen at Bidwell Park, Hooker Oak Rec Area, Manzanita Ave between Valombrosa and Hooker Oak Ave, Chico.

The Huxley File

The Huxley File is addressed to an audience ranging from those who never heard of Thomas Henry Huxley to those who are familiar with him and may even have read some of his work. For specific guidance on the various subjects he wrote about – fields ranging from the design of marine invertebrate structure to the design of a good human society – the cybernaut may refer to any of the 21 guides concluding this preview. Selections in The Huxley File that appear only in obscure Victorian magazines or hidden archives will be of interest to those who do know him and may even have studied and published on him.

Life of Leonard Jenyns

Fascinating site about the life of the British naturalist the Rev. Leonard Jenyns (later Blomefield), a friend and correspondent of Darwin’s, who also officiated at Joseph Hooker’s first wedding (to Frances Henslow, the daughter of Johns Stevens Henslow, the Cambridge Botany Professor who taught Darwin). This site also contains an amazing archive of Victorian photographic visiting cards.

Alfred Russel Wallace

A web site dedicated to celebrating the life and work of the English naturalist, evolutionist, and social critic Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). Contains extensive information on one of the most fascinating figures in the history of science.