Whigs and savants: Reflections on the reform movement in the royal society, 1830-48

Metropolis and Province: Science in British Culture, 1780-1850

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 55-90

  Macleod, Roy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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