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Volume 48 - March 2015

Book Review

Charles Mollan (ed.), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse: Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. Pp. xxii + 368. ISBN 978-0-7190-9144-5. £70.00 (hardback).

Efram Sera-Shriar, The Making of British Anthropology, 1813–1871. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xi + 255. ISBN 978-1-84893-394-1. £60.00 (hardback).

Susan Schmidt Horning, Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 292. ISBN 978-1-4214-1022-7. £29.00 (hardback).

James A. Secord, Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 306. ISBN 978-0-19-967526-5. £18.99 (hardback).

Thomas Kaiserfeld and Tom O'Dell (eds.), Legitimizing ESS: Big Science as a Collaboration across Boundaries. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2013. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-91-87351-10-5. £30.95 (hardback).

Mirjam Brusius, Katrina Dean and Chitra Ramalingam (eds.), William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 308 + 109 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-17934-7. £50.00 (cloth).

Ben Marsden, Hazel Hutchison and Ralph O'Connor (eds.), Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800–1914. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xiii + 239. ISBN 978-1-84893-362-0. £60.00 (hardback).

Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon (eds.), Evolution and Victorian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 320. ISBN 978-1-107-02842-5. £60.00 (hardback).

P.J. Capelotti, Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013. Pp. xxix + 269. ISBN 978-1-55238-705-4. US$41.95 (paperback).

Piers J. Hale, Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 442. ISBN 978-0-226-10849-0. $45.00/£31.50 (hardback).

Steven J. Dick, Discovery and Classification in Astronomy: Controversy and Consensus. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 458. ISBN 978-1-107-03361-0. £30.00/$45.00 (hardback).

Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney and Andrew Whitaker (eds.), James Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on His Life and Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, Pp. x + 364. ISBN 978-0-19-966437-5. £39.99.

Robert J. Richards, Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 269. ISBN 978-0-226-05893-1. $27.50 (paperback).

Douglas A. Lorimer, Science, Race Relations and Resistance: Britain, 1870–1914. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 344. ISBN 978-0-7190-3357-5. £80.00 (hardback).

James T. Costa (ed.), On the Organic Law of Change: A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's Species Notebook of 1855–1859. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 573. ISBN 978-0-674-72488-4. £36.95 (hardback).

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Michel Janssen and Christoph Lehner (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Einstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi + 562. ISBN 978-0-521-82834-5. £65.00 (hardback).

Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman and Richard England (eds.), The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869–1880: A Critical Edition. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxiv + 1,288. ISBN 978-0-19-964303-5. £320.00 (hardback).

Angelique Richardson (ed.), After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. Pp. xvi + 369. ISBN 978-90-420-3747-2. €85.00 (hardback).

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