The New Scriptures According to Tyndall, Darwin, Etc.
I found this in the Times and Register of March 26, 1892, but I’ve seen it in other periodicals from at least 1875, one year after Tyndall’s call for the authority of science and materialism - his...
View ArticleLondon Trip – Royal Institution
I am in London right now, on a research trip to the archives of the Royal Institution, for Tyndall material, and at Kew on Thursday for J.D. Hooker material. Today I held in my hand a letter from...
View ArticleMore antievolutionism in the New York Times
I came across another piece of antievolutionism in the New York Times, of 19 May 1886, in “What Deaf-Mutes Can Do”: If Prof. Tyndall had been present yesterday afternoon at the pupils’ exhibition of...
View ArticleLibrary book sale finds
At two recent library book sales I have come across some Tyndall books. First, I found Hours of Exercise in the Alps (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896), a collection of writings about...
View ArticleMore 19th-century caricatures with Tyndall
To add to my post about 19th-Century Caricature Prints with Tyndall, here are three more (all from Puck magazine) I have come across, two from the website Cartooning Evolution, 1861-1925, and the first...
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