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Dear Mr Darwin, a lecture at the Oxford Martin School

"Dear Mr Darwin", a lecture delivered by Professor Sally Shuttleworth, Dr Sally Frampton and Dr Geoff Belknap as part of the Oxford Martin School lecture series Trusting the crowd: solving big problems with everyday solutions.

Nineteenth-century engraving of an instrument for collecting insects

In Defence of 'Stamp Collecting'

An undated photograph of Frederick C. Lincoln at his desk in Washington, with aluminum bird bands and pliers to his right and a map of North American migratory pathways on the wall.

Materials of Mass Participation: Aluminum and Paper in Early Twentieth Century U.S. Bird Banding

This post is contributed by Etienne Benson, Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania.

Engravings of various stylized nineteenth-century letters

People Powered Science II

At the beginning of the project I posted some thoughts on people powered science and how history might hold some lessons for contemporary citizen science practice.

Antiqued portrait of Paul du Bois-Reymond in Emil du Bois-Reymond‘s Untersuchungen über thierische Elektricität, vol. II (Berlin: Reimer, 1884)

Self-Fashioning Scientific Identities: A Conference Report and Outlook

What did a nineteenth-century janitor have to do to become an acknowledged member of the scientific community?

'Edward Newman. Photograph by Maull & Polyblank.'

The Zoologist (1843-1916)

The nineteenth century saw a proliferation of periodicals dedicated to natural history in its various forms.