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The author's aim in these essays, which complement his pioneering
books on natural history, has been to find out more about the
different categories of people who engaged in this field in the
past, and to piece together how the subject has been shaped by
changes in society as a whole. For long the historical study of
natural history was neglected, being questionably science as
historians of science chose to define that word; David Allen's work
has done much to remedy this. One group of the essays included here
seeks to reinterpret and document more fully topics covered in The
Naturalist in Britain; others look at crazes that swept society,
notably the Victorian mania for fern collecting, and at the
biographies of some of the leading naturalists in 18th- and
19th-century Britain.
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