A speech by the British botanist and geologist J.S. Henslow, delivered at a meeting of the Ipswich Museum Society. Henslow discusses the museum's collections, the importance of natural history to scientific inquiry, and the challenges facing naturalists in the mid-19th century. The speech offers a fascinating glimpse into the state of scientific knowledge and public discourse in Victorian England.This work has been selected by scholars as bein...
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