'Equal though different': Laboratories, museums and the institutional development of biology in late-Victorian Northern England

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-236

  Kraft, Alison ^a   Alberti, Samuel J M M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Leeds; Manchester; Marshall; Miall; Natural history; Sheffield

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038240816     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8486(03)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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