Victorian Scientific Naturalism
Community, Identity, Continuity
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Forging Friendships
1 “The Great O. versus the Jermyn St. Pet”: Huxley, Falconer, and Owen on Paleontological Method
Gowan Dawson
2 Evolutionary Naturalism on High: The Victorians Sequester the Alps
Michael S. Reidy
3 Paradox: The Art of Scientifi c Naturalism
George Levine
Institutional Politics
4 Huxley and the Devonshire Commission
Bernard Lightman
5 Economies of Scales: Evolutionary Naturalists and the Victorian Examination System
James Elwick
6 Odd Man Out: Was Joseph Hooker an Evolutionary Naturalist?
Jim Endersby
Broader Alliances
7 Sunday Lecture Societies: Naturalistic Scientists, Unitarians, and Secularists Unite against Sabbatarian Legislation
Ruth Barton
8 The Conduct of Belief: Agnosticism, the Metaphysical Society, and the Formation of Intellectual Communities
Paul White
9 Where Naturalism and Theism Met: The Uniformity of Nature
Matthew Stanley
New Generations
10 The Fate of Scientifi c Naturalism: From Public Sphere to Professional Exclusivity
Theodore M. Porter
11 The Successors to the X Club? Late Victorian Naturalists and Nature, 1869–1900
Melinda Baldwin
12 From Agnosticism to Rationalism: Evolutionary Biologists, the Rationalist Press Association, and Early Twentieth-Century Scientific Naturalism
Peter J. Bowler
Acknowledgments
Bibliography of Major Works on Scientific Naturalism
List of Contributors
Index
History: British and Irish History | History of Ideas
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
Physical Sciences: History and Philosophy of Physical Sciences
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