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Publication Asa Gray and Charles Darwin: Corresponding Naturalists
(Harvard University Herbaria, 2010) Browne, JanetRecent work on the rise of science in the nineteenth century has encouraged historians to look again at the role of correspondence. Naturalists relied extensively on this form of contact and correspondence was a major element in generating a community of experts who agreed on what comprised valid knowledge. As a leading figure in the development of North American botany, Asa Gray found that letters with botanists and collectors all over the world greatly expanded his areas of influence. Lasting friendships were made and the collections at Harvard were materially advanced. Letters also brought Gray into contact with Charles Darwin, who became a close friend. After publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859, Gray defended Darwinism in the United States and corresponded with him about evolution. This article sets Gray's correspondence with Darwin in the context of the reception of Darwinism in the United States.
Publication Catesby's World: England
(University of Georgia Press, 2015) Browne, JanetPublication An Appreciation of Christiane Groeben: The Correspondence between Charles Darwin and Anton Dohrn
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2015) Browne, JanetPublication Corresponding Naturalists
(Pickering & Chatto, 2014) Browne, JanetPublication Charles Darwin: Traveller, author, and naturalist
(W.H. Freeman, 2011) Browne, JanetPublication Darwinism in popular culture
(American Philosophical Society, 2012) Browne, JanetPublication A CD-Rom on Medicine in Literature
(Blackwell Publishing, 2001) Browne, JanetPublication Officers and Council Members of the British Society for the History of Science, 1947–97
(Cambridge University Press, 1997) Browne, JanetAs described elsewhere in this issue of BJHS, preliminary steps towards founding a society for the history of science in Britain were taken in 1946. A meeting was held at the Science Museum, London, on 22 November 1946, chaired by Herbert Dingle, at which Gavin de Beer formally proposed the foundation of a history of science society, seconded by Michael Roberts. A provisional committee was appointed to draw up rules and a constitution.
Publication Birthdays to Remember
(Nature Publishing Group, 2008) Browne, JanetPublication Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe
(Oxford University Press, 2008) Browne, Janet