Victorian science : a self-portrait from the presidential addresses of the British Association for the Advancement of Science / edited by George Basalla, William Coleman, Robert H. Kargon.

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1970.

x, 510 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm

Science and society : the founding of the British Association for the Advancement of Science / by W.V. Harcourt.--Science and the state / by Prince Albert.--Science and technology as sources of national power / by L. Playfair.--The physical sciences: Force and energy in an industrial society / by W.R. Grove.--The structure of matter and the unity of science / by W. Thomson.--Science and Victorian material culture / by W. Fairbairn.--The molecule and the progress of chemistry / by H.E. Roscoe.--The life sciences: Embryology and evolution / by A. Thomson. Protoplasm and the commonality of life / by G.J. Allman. Physiology and the functional aspects of the organism / by J.S. Burdon-Sanderson.--The evolutionary hypothesis / by C.G.B. Daubeny, and others.--Geology: Geology becomes a science / by A. Geikie.--Method and metaphysics: The logic of scientific endeavor / by J. Herschel.--Man the interpreter of nature / by W.B. Carpenter.--Science and religion / by J. Tyndall.--Fin de siècle: The new century. The death of the Queen / by J.N. Lockyer.