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James Secord

James Secord’s account of pre-Darwinian evolutionary debates, Victorian Sensation, is out in paperback.

Selected bibliography

  • Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell and James Secord (1997)
  • Cultures of Natural History (1996)
  • Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute (1986)

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