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  • BJH volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / November 1980
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    05 January 2009, pp. f1-f4
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    November 1980
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  • BJH volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / November 1980
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    05 January 2009, pp. b1-b2
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  • Victor Eyles 10 October 1895–8 March 1978

  • H. S. Torrens
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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / November 1980
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    05 January 2009, pp. 282-283
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  • Seamen, Scientists, Historians, and Strategy: Presidential Address, 1978

  • D. W. Waters
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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / November 1980
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    05 January 2009, pp. 189-210
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  • Herschel in Bedlam: Natural History and Stellar Astronomy

  • Simon Schaffer
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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / November 1980
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    05 January 2009, pp. 211-239
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  • In his comprehensive survey of the work of William Herschel, published in the Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes for 1842, Dominique Arago argued that the life of the great astronomer ‘had the rare privilege of forming an epoch in an extended branch of astronomy’. Arago also noted, however, that Herschel's ideas were often taken as ‘the conceptions of a madman’, even if they were subsequently accepted. This fact, commented Arago, ‘seems to me one that deserves to appear in the history of science’. From the time Herschel published his first paper in the Philosophical transactions in 1781, he was subjected to the suggestion of lunacy. His patron and friend William Watson, told him that after his claims for the extraordinary power of his telescopes, ‘your prognosis that some would think you fit for Bedlam has been verified’. On learning of Herschel's supremely accurate new micrometer, the astronomer Alexander Aubert exclaimed to Herschel that ‘we would go to Bedlam together’: Aubert wrote to Herschel in January 1782 that he should ‘mind not a few jealous barking puppies: a little time will clear up the matter, and if it lays in my power you would not be sent to Bedlam alone, for I incline much to be of the party’.

  • The Women Members of the Botanical Society of London, 1836–1856

  • D. E. Allen
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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / November 1980
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    05 January 2009, pp. 240-254
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    November 1980

  • On 6 September 1836, George White wrote from Hatton Garden to T. B. Hall in Liverpool:

    I see by an advertisement that [there is] a proposition to form a Society to be called the Botanical Society of London—Its objects are the advancement of Botanical Science in general but more especially systematic and descriptive Botany—the formation of a Library, Museum & Herbarium—A meeting will be held at the Crown & Anchor, Strand, tomorrow evening & it is my intention to attend it—It has been proposed that Ladies should be admitted!!!

    If the writer of those words lived up to his declared intention and did attend that or any other of the long string of inaugural meetings the Society held during the last quarter of that year, he would have been startled, perhaps even appalled to find how seriously that last-mentioned proposal had been taken. For on 3 November he would have found in the room at the Crown and Anchor Tavern (according to one report) ‘a crowded assembly of both ladies and gentlemen’. He would also have heard the founder of the Society, the nineteen-year-old Daniel Cooper, deliver a paper on the effects of light on plants, which (according to the same report) ‘excited great interest, more particularly with the ladies’. A fortnight later the meeting was again ‘numerously attended’ and again it attracted a number of the supposedly unlearned sex, some of whom by then were ‘members of the society’ unambiguously.

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