Redefining the X axis: "professionals", "amateurs" and the making of mid-Victorian biology - A progress report

Journal of the History of Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-50

  Desmond, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amateurs; Biology; Laboratory; Professionalization; Thomas Henry Huxley; Victorian life sciences; X Club

Indexed keywords

DARWINIA; VICTORIA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOLOGY; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 19TH CENT.; SOCIETIES; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC;

EID: 0034941807     PISSN: 00225010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010346828270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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