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Victorian Science and Literature

General Editors: Gowan Dawson, University of Leicester and Bernard Lightman, York University
Part I: 4 Volume Set: c.1600pp: June 2011
978 1 84893 091 9: 234x156mm: £350/$625
Part II: 4 Volume Set: c.1600pp: June 2012
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Building on the success of Literature and Science,

1660–1834 (Pickering & Chatto, 2003–4), this
ambitious eight-volume, reset edition in two parts
collects rare primary sources on Victorian science,
literature and culture.
Science had a fundamental effect on the Victorian
world. Previously, ‘science’ was used to refer to
knowledge of a quite general kind, but during
the nineteenth century science became more
formalized as it grew to encompass new and
emerging disciplines. The growing influence of
science on Victorian culture can be seen in almost
‘Man is But a Worm’ from Punch’s Almanack for 1882
every aspect of life; from industry, urbanization (6th December 1881) by Edward Linley Sambourne
and the spread of imperialism, to religion and the © Mary Evans Picture Library
impact of Darwinism.
Theories on the natural world, evolution, race and
• Features over two hundred texts
spiritualism entered the public consciousness,
contributing to a more scientifically literate society. • Includes rare material by J H Newman, T H
In turn literature helped to shape the new sciences, Huxley, Michael Faraday, John Ruskin, Arthur
with scientific discourses relying heavily on literary Conan Doyle, William Thackeray, Harriet
precedents. Martineau and Gerard Manley Hopkins

Each volume will focus on an important theme • Large editorial team made up of leading
from current scholarship. The edition begins scholars in the field from the UK and North
with an extensive general introduction as well as America
having introductions at the start of each volume. • Full scholarly apparatus, including a general
Headnotes and explanatory annotations also introduction, volume introductions, headnotes
feature throughout. The collection will appeal to all and endnotes
those with an interest in the history of science and
• Consolidated index in the final volume
literature, as well as social history, empire studies
and occultism.

Volume Editors
David Amigoni, Keele University Roger Luckhurst, University of London
Suzy Anger, University of British Columbia Jude V Nixon, Salem State College
Claire Brock, University of Leicester Ralph O’Connor, University of Aberdeen
Marwa Elshakry, Columbia University James Paradis, MIT
James Elwick, York University Justin Sausman is an independent scholar
Richard England, Salisbury University Sujit Sivasundaram, University of London
Piers Hale, University of Oklahoma Jonathan Smith, University of Michigan
Melanie Keene, University of Cambridge
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Part I
Volume 1: Negotiating Boundaries Taken by the Authors – Physical Axioms’, The Unseen
‘On the Application of the Terms Poetry, Science, and Universe, or, Physical Speculations on a Future State
Philosophy’, Monthly Repository (1834); William (1878)*; George Lewes, ‘On the Dread and Dislike of
Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Science: A Defense of Science against the Claims of
Founded Upon their History (1840)*; Robert Hunt, Theology’, Fortnightly Review (1878); Arthur Balfour,
The Poetry of Science (1848)*; G H Lewes, Comte’s A Defence of Philosophical Doubt, being an Essay on
Philosophy of the Sciences (1853)*; William Whewell, the Foundations of Belief (1879)*; Vernon Lee, ‘Apollo
‘Spedding’s Complete Edition of the Works of Bacon’, the Fiddler: A Chapter on Artistic Anachronism’,
Edinburgh Review (1857)*; J H Newman, ‘The Fraser’s Magazine (1882)*; Frances Power Cobbe, ‘The
Mission of the Benedictine Order’, Atlantis (1858)*; Scientific Spirit of the Age’, The Scientific Spirit of the
Hugh Miller, ‘Lecture the Second’, Popular Geology Age, and other Pleas and Discussions (1888)*; Karl
(1859)*; E S Dallas, The Gay Science (1866)*; Charles Pearson, ‘The Need of the Present’ and ‘The Scope of
Kingsley, ‘A Charm of Birds’, Fraser’s Magazine (1867); Science’, The Grammar of Science (1900); [Mona Caird]
Michael Faraday, ‘Observations on the Education of the Independent Anti-Vivisection League, ‘The Sanctuary
Judgment’, Modern Culture, E Youmans (ed) (1867)*; T of Mercy’ (1892)*. Science lending new cultural
H Huxley, ‘Aphorisms by Goethe’, Nature (1869)*; John authority to an existing field: Alexander Bain, The
Tyndall, ‘Scientific Use of the Imagination’, Fragments Senses and the Intellect (1874)*; Henry Maudsley, ‘An
of Science for Unscientific People (1871)*; John Ruskin, Address on Medical Psychology’, The British Medical
‘Lecture VIII: The Relation to Art of the Sciences Journal (1872)*; Francis Galton, ‘Measurement of
of Organic Form’, The Eagle’s Nest (1872)*; Edward Character’, Fortnightly Review (1884); Havelock Ellis,
Dowden, ‘The Scientific Movement and Literature’, The Criminal (1916)*. Pro-science and anti-science
Contemporary Review (1877); T H Huxley, ‘On Science satire or parody: Punch; or, the London Charivari*;
and Art in Relation to Education’ (1882), in Science Benjamin Bendigo [William M Thackeray] ‘Science at
and Education. Essays by Thomas H Huxley (1893)*; Cambridge’, Punch (1848); J L, Pseud [John Leech], ‘H
W S Lilly, ‘Materialism and Morality’, Fortnightly R H Field-Marshall Chancellor Prince Albert Taking the
Review (1886)*; T H Huxley, ‘Science and Morals’, Pons Asionorum’, Punch (1848); ‘Unnatural Selection
Fortnightly Review (1886)*; W S Lilly, ‘The Province of and Improvement of Species. (A Paper Intended to be
Physics’, Fortnightly Review (1887)*; A J Balfour, The Read at our Social Science Congress Social Science
Congress, by One who has been Spending Half-an-
Foundations of Belief (1895)*.
Hour or so with DARWIN’), Punch (1860); ‘Punch’s
Volume 2: Victorian Science as Cultural Scientific Register’, Punch (1864); Psychosis, Our
Authority modern philosophers: Darwin, Bain and Spencer; or,
Science as a source of cultural authority: William The Descent of Man, Mind and Body : A Rhyme with
Whewell, ‘Review of Preliminary Discourse on the Reasons, Essays, Notes and Quotations (1884)*; W
Study of Natural Philosophy, 1830, by John Herschel’, Cosmo Monkhouse, The Automaton: A Comedy in Three
Quarterly Review (1831)*; Baden Powell, The Connexion Acts [nd]*. Worlds that project (or contest) the
of Natural and Divine Truth; or, The Study of the cultural authority of science: Coventry Patmore,
Inductive Philosophy Considered as Subservient to ‘The Two Deserts’, The Unknown Eros: I-XLVI (1878);
Theology (1838)*; James C Prichard, ‘On the Relations [Algernon Charles Swinburne], ‘Disgust: A Dramatic
of Ethnology to Other Branches of Knowledge’, Journal Monologue’, Fortnightly Review (1881); Thomas Hardy,
of the Ethnological Society of London (1848)*; Hugh Two on a Tower: A Romance (1883)*; James Clerk
Miller, ‘Stromness and its Asterolepis’ and ‘The Maxwell, ‘To Hermann Stoffkraft, PhD, The Hero
development Hypothesis and its Consequences’, Foot- of a Recent Work Called Paradoxical Philosophy, A
Prints of the Creator: or, the Asterolopis of Stromness Paradoxical Ode after Shelley’, in Lewis Campbell and
(1850); Herbert Spencer ‘The Social Organism’ (1860), William Garnett, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell…
in Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)*; (1884); Grant Allen, ‘Child of the Phalanstery’, Strange
T H Huxley, ‘On the Advisableness of Improving Stories (1884); Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Great
Natural Knowledge’, Collected Essays (1866)*; John Kleinplatz Experiment’, Belgravia: A London Magazine
Ruskin, ‘Athena Keramitis’, Athena, Queen of the Air: (1885); May Kendall, ‘Take Long Views’, Dreams to
Being a Study of the Greek Myths or Cloud and Storm Sell (1887); May Kendall, ‘The Conquering Machine’,
(1903)*; William Kingdon Clifford, ‘Right and Wrong, Dreams to Sell (1887); May Kendall, ‘Ether Insatiable’,
the Scientific Ground of their Distinction’, in Lectures Songs from Dreamland (1894); Israel Zangwill, ‘The
and Essays, Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock Memory Clearing House’, Idler: an illustrated monthly
(eds) (1879)*; Balfour Stewart and P G Tait, ‘Position (1892).
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Volume 3: Science, Religion and Natural Volume 4: The Evolutionary Epic

Theology Before Darwin: The Cosmos, Geology, Fossils,
On The Divine Economy Of Nature: Baden Powell, Language, Imagination: John Pringle Nichol, The
The Connexion between Natural and Divine Truth Architecture of the Heavens (1850)*; Hugh Miller,
(1838)*; Samuel Brown, ‘The Argument of Design Sketch-Book of Popular Geology (1859)*; [Hensleigh
equal to Nothing, or Nieuentyt and Paley vs. David Wedgwood], ‘Grimm on the Indo-European Languages’,
Hume and St. Paul’ in Lectures on Atomic Theory Quarterly Review (1833); Richard Owen, Palæontology:
and Essays Scientific and Literary (1858); William A Systematic Study of Extinct Animals and the
Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy Considered Geological Relations (1861)*. The Development
with Reference to Natural Theology (1837)*; Edward Hypothesis: New Directions: [Herbert Spencer],
Forbes, History of British Starfishes (1841)*; Frank ‘The Development Hypothesis’, The Leader (1852);
Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History (1859)*; Henry [Edmund Saul Dixon], ‘A Vision of Animal Existences’,
Crosskey, The Method of Creation (1889)*. Cosmic Cornhill Magazine (1862); Winwood Reade, The
Considerations: Richard Proctor, Other Worlds Martyrdom of Man (1872)*; Edward Clodd, The Story
Than Ours (1871) [extracts]; James Prescott Joule, of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution (1901)*. Late
‘On Matter, Living Force, and Heat’, in The Scientific Century Developments and Debates: Evolution
Papers of James Prescott Joule (1884); John Tyndall, as Knowledge, Degeneration, Empire, Gender
Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (1863)*; Thomas and Mutuality: T H Huxley, ‘Review of Ernst Haeckel,
Huxley, ‘The Physical Basis of Life’ Fortnightly Review Anthropogenie (1874)’, The Academy (1875); Grant
(1868); James Iverach, Christianity and Evolution Allen, ‘Evolution’, Cornhill Magazine (1888); Edwin
(1894)*. Redesigning Darwin: F Max Müller, The Ray Lankester, ‘Degeneration: a chapter in Darwinism’,
Science of Language: Founded on Lectures delivered (1880)*; Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution (1894)*; Eliza
at the Royal Institution in 1861 and 1863 (1891)*; Henry Burt Gamble, The Evolution of Woman: An Inquiry
Acland, The Harveian Oration (1865) [extract]; Duke into the Dogma of her Inferiority to Man (1894)*; Peter
of Argyll [G D Campbell], The Reign of Law (1867)*; Kropotkin, ‘Mutual Aid Amongst Modern Men’, The
Charles Kingsley, ‘The Natural Theology of the Future’, Nineteenth Century (1896).
Macmillan’s Magazine (1871); George Henry Lewes,
Problems of Life and Mind: First Series, vol I (1874)*; * extract/s from original text
George Henry Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind: First
Series, vol II (1875)*; George Henry Lewes, The Physical
Basis of Mind: Problems of Life and Mind, Second
Series, vol I (1874)*; Joseph Parker, Job’s Comforters,
or Scientific Sympathy (1876)*. God And Nature:
Knowing, Feeling: David Moir, The Poetical Works of
David Macbeth Moir, Thomas Aird (ed) (1852)*; Gerard
Manley Hopkins, ‘God’s Grandeur’, Poems of Gerard
Manley Hopkins, Robert Bridges (ed) (1948); Gerard
Manley Hopkins, ‘Nondum’, Poems of Gerard Manley
Hopkins, Robert Bridges (ed) (1948); John Henry
Newman, ‘Desolation’, Verses on Various Occasions
(1868); Arthur Grey Butler, ‘In the Beginning’ in Harold,
a Drama in Four Acts, and Other Poems (1892); George
Romanes, ‘Charles Darwin – A Memorial Poem’,
‘Natural Theology’ and ‘The Drama of Life’, from A
Selection of the Poems of George John Romanes (1896).
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Part II
Volume 5: New Audiences for Science: Volume 6: Science, Race, and
Women, Children, Labourers Imperialism
Thomas Twining, Science Made Easy: A Series of Travel And Exploration: J D Hooker, Himalayan
Familiar Lectures on the Elements of Scientific Journals (1854)*; ‘Lady Astronomer’ [Miss Brown],
Knowledge Most Required in Daily Life… (1878)*. Caught in the Tropics: A Sequel to In Pursuit of a
Women: Mary Roberts, The Wonders of the Shadow (1891); G B Airy, ‘Astronomy’ in John Herschel
Vegetable Kingdom Displayed (1822)*; ‘MSR’, ‘The (ed), A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the
Englishwoman in London: I: Dr Elisabeth Blackwell’, Use of Officers of Her Majesty’s Navy, and Travellers
Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine (1859–1860); in General (1851); Paul Du Chaillu, ‘My first gorilla’,
‘MSR’, ‘The Englishwoman in London: VII: The Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa
Sanitary Movement’, Englishwoman’s Domestic (1861); Francis Galton, Narrative of an Explorer in
Magazine (1859–1860); Lydia Becker, ‘On the Study Tropical South Africa; Being an Account of a Visit
of Science By Women’, Contemporary Review (1869); to Damaraland in 1851 (1889); Jehangeer Nowrojee
Richard A Proctor, ‘The Life of Mrs Somerville’, from and Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee, Journal of a Residence of
Light Science for Leisure Hours. A Series of Familiar Two Years and a Half in Great Britain (1841)*; Nasir
Essays on Scientific Subjects (1871)*; Henry Maudsley, al-Din Shah’s Visit to London (1873). Exhibiting
‘Sex in Mind and Education’, Fortnightly Review And Collecting: John Conolly, The Ethnological
(1874); Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, ‘Sex in Mind Exhibitions of London (1853)*; Alexander Moon,
and Education: a reply’, Fortnightly Review (1874); A catalogue of the Indigenous and Exotic Plants
Margaret Harkness, A City Girl: A Realistic Story Growing in Ceylon… (1824)*; Andrew Smith, South
(1887)*; Sophia Jex-Blake, ‘Medical Women in Fiction,’ African Quarterly Journal (1830–7)*; Robert Ellis,
Nineteenth Century (1893). Children: The House I ‘British Colonies and Dependencies’ Great Britain.
Live In: Or, Popular Illustrations of the Structure and Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, Official
Functions of the Human Body. For the Use of Families Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue*; Madras
and Schools, Thomas C Girtin, Surgeon (ed) (1837); Central Committee Report for the Grand Exhibition of
Henry Mayhew, The Wonders of Science: Or, Young Industry and Art, Supplement to the Fort Saint George
Humphry Davy: The Life of a Wonderful Boy Written Gazette (1851). Natural Theologies: John Williams,
for Boys (1858) [extracts]; John Henry Pepper, Scientific ‘Corals’ from A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises
Amusements for Young People (1861)*; ‘Some Boys Who in the South Sea Islands (1837); Alexander Wylie,
Became Famous: The Errand-Boy of Jacob’s Well Mews Shanghae Serial (1857)*; Henry Baker Tristram, The
[Michael Faraday]’, The Boy’s Own Paper (1879); Robert Natural History of the Bible; Being a Review of the
Ball, Star-Land: Being Talks with Young People about Physical Geography, Geology, and Meteorology of the
the Wonders of the Heavens (1891)*; S F A Caulfeild, Holy Land, with a Description of Every Animal and
‘Women and Girls as Inventors, and Discoverers: Plant Mentioned in Holy Scripture (1868). Race And
Part I’, The Girl’s Own Paper (1894); ‘Women and The Human Sciences: J Lamprey, ‘On a method of
Girls as Inventors, and Discoverers: Part II’, The measuring the human form for the use of students in
Girls’ Own Paper (1895); Florence Sophie Davson, Ethnology’, Journal of the Ethnological Society (1869);
‘Women’s Work in Sanitation and Hygiene’, The Girls’ James Hunt, ‘The Negro’s Place in Nature’ (1863); John
Own Paper (1899). Labourers: Henry Brougham, A Crawfurd, ‘On the Malayan and Polynesian languages
Discourse of the Objects, Advantages and Pleasures of and races’, Journal of the Ethnological Society of
Science, Preliminary Treatise to the Library of Useful London (1848); Edward Tregear, The Aryan Maori
Knowledge (1827); Alfred Smith, An Introductory (1885)*; T H Huxley, ‘On the Geographical Distribution
Lecture on the Past and Present State of Science, In of the Chief Modifications of Man’, Journal of the
this Country, As Regards the Working Classes (1831); Ethnological Society (1870); Isaac Taylor, Origin of the
‘Introduction’ to The Popular Science Review (1862); Aryans (1890); ‘Proceedings of the Society: May 5th,
Edward Aveling, Darwinism and Small Families 1868’, Journal of the Anthropological Society of London
(1882); Arthur Ransome, On Some Dangers Connected (1868); Harry Johnston, ‘Empire and Anthropology’,
with Dwellings and How to Avoid Them (1883); John Nineteenth Century and After; Harry Johnston,
Sibbald, Work and Rest (1884); Alfred Russel Wallace, ‘Anthropology and the Empire: Deputation to Mr.
Vaccination a Delusion, its Penal Enforcement a Crime: Asquith’, Man (1909). Imperial Technologies And
Proved by the Official Evidence in the Reports of the The Sciences Of Governance: Anonymous ballad
Royal Commission (1898); Roger Langdon, The Life composed in honour of the British opening of a road
of Roger Langdon [1825-1894] told by Himself, with to the hills in Ceylon (1828) [ms]; J Clerk, ‘Suez Canal’,
Additions by his Daughter Ellen (1909). Fortnightly Review (1869); J Henniker-Heaton, ‘An
Imperial Telegraph System’, The Nineteenth Century
(1899); J A Voelcker, Report on the Improvement of
Indian Agriculture (1895)*; Roderick Murchison,
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‘On the antiquity of the physical geography of inner ‘A Vision’ (1830s) [ms]; Robert Hunt, ‘The Vision of
Africa’, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society the Mystery’, Panthea (1849). Fantastic Voyage
(1864); Robert Schomburgk, Twelve views in the (Didactic Mini-Genre): William Buckland, ‘The
Interior of Guiana (1841)*; Luteef Khan Bahadoor, A Professor’s Descent’ (1820s) [ms]; Agnes Catlow, Drops
Discourse on the Nature, Objects, and Advantages of Water: Their Marvellous and Beautiful Inhabitants
of the Periodical Census, read at a meeting of the (1851)*; Hugh Miller, Sketch-Book of Modern Geology
Bethune Society held on the 5th of April 1865 (1865)*. (1859)*; Richard Proctor, ‘A Voyage to the Ringed
Science, Nationalism And Anti-Colonialism: Planet’, Cornhill Magazine (1872); ‘ALOE’ [C M
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, ‘Bharata Dharma Mahamandala’, Tucker], Fairy Frisket; or, Peeps at Insect Life (1874)*.
lecture delivered at Benares, 3rd January 1906, from Fantastic Voyage (Large-scale Fictional Genre):
Bal Gangadhar Tilak: His Writings and Speeches [Anon], The History of a Voyage to the Moon, With an
(1922)*; ‘India’s Gift to the World’, Brooklyn Standard Account of the Adventurers’ Subsequent Discoveries;
Union (1895); F D Murad, Scientific Education with An Exhumed Narrative, Supposed to Have Been Ejected
Special Reference to the Muslim University Aligarh from a Lunar Volcano (1864)*. Romancing the
and India’s Neglect of Science (1917); Mahendralal Future: Technological Utopia: W T Stead, ‘Looking
Sircar, ‘On the desirability of cultivation of the sciences Forward: A Romance of the Electrical Age’, Review
by the natives of India’, Calcutta Journal of Medicine of Reviews (1890). Romantic Songs and Ballads:
(1869); Muhammad ‘Abduh, Science and Civilization in Edward Forbes, ‘A Naturalist’s Valentine’, from Charles
Islam and Christianity (1905)*; Address by Sir Charles Daubeny (ed), Fugitive Poems (1869); Robert More, ‘The
Metcalfe to the South African Association for the Scientific Man; or, Mrs Crucible’s Lamentation’ [1843];
Advancement of Science in Report of the South African J F McArdle and F Amos, ‘A Scientific Simpleton, or
Association for the Advancement of Science, First the insane inventor’s ingenious inventory investigated’
Meeting Cape Town 1903 (1903); James Hector, ‘On [1881]; Constance Naden, ‘Scientific Wooing’, ‘The New
recent Moa Remains in New Zealand’, Transactions and Orthodoxy’ and ‘Love Versus Learning’, from Complete
Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute (1871). Poetical Works (1894); Arnold Beresford, ‘Botany (The
Professor’s Love-Story)’ (1909).
Volume 7: Science as Romance
Introduction: Reportage on the Romance of Volume 8: Marginal and Occult Sciences
Modern Science: [W H Wills and George A Sala], Phrenology: John Yelloly, ‘A Letter from Charles
‘Fairyland in Fifty-Four’, Household Words (1853). Villiers to George Cuvier. Of the National Institute
Reflections on How to ‘Romanticize’ Science: of France, on a new Theory of the Brain by Dr Gall,
[Anon] ‘Miller’s Old Red Sandstone’, Presbyterian in which that Viscus is considered as the immediate
Review (1841–2)*; [Charles Dickens], ‘Review of Hunt’s organ of the Moral Faculties’, Monthly Review (1802);
The Poetry of Science’, The Examiner (1848); William George Combe, Elements of Phrenology (1824)*; Daniel
Wilson, An Earnest Little Book upon a Great Old Noble, ‘True and False Phrenology’, British and Foreign
Subject (1851)*. Familiar Didactic Exposition: Medical Review (1840); G H Lewes, ‘Psychology finally
Charles Kingsley, Glaucus (1855)*; John Cargill Brough, recognized as a branch of biology – the Phrenological
‘The Wonderful Lamp’, The Fairy-Tales of Science hypothesis’, The History of Philosophy from Thales
(1859); Arabella Buckley, The Fairy-Land of Science to Comte (1867). Mesmerism: ‘Abstract of a clinical
(1879)*; John Gordon McPherson, The Fairyland Tales lecture by Dr Elliotson, on remarkable cases of Sleep
of Science (1889)*; Henry Hutchinson, Prehistoric Man waking, and on the effects of animal magnetism
and Beast (1896)*; Margaret Gatty, Waifs and Strays of on patients with nervous affections’, Lancet (1837);
Natural History (1871)*. Heroic Biography: Thomas ‘University College Hospital: Animal Magnetism’,
Hawkins, Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri Lancet (1838); ‘Animal Magnetism’, Medico-Chiurgical
(1834)*. Nature Speaks to Humans: Mary Roberts, Review (1838); Harriet Martineau ‘On Mesmerism’,
Voices from the Woodlands (1850)*; [R H Horne], Athenaeum (1844); ‘Prospectus’ Zoist (1843); Dr
The Poor Artist; or, Seven Eye-Sights and One Object Engledue, ‘Cases of Mesmeric Clairvoyance and
(1850)*; ‘A Minister of the Interior’ [Sydney Whiting], Sympathy of Feeling’, Zoist (1844); Edmund Gurney,
Memoirs of a Stomach, Written by Himself (1853)*; ‘The Stages of Hypnotism’, Mind (1884). Spiritualism:
John Mill, The Fossil Spirit (1854)*; Frank Constable, Robert Dale Owen, ‘Statement of the Subject’, Footfalls
The Curse of Intellect (1895)*. Scientific Fairytale: on the Boundary of Another World (1865)*; Rev
‘Acheta Domestica’ [L M Budgen], Episodes of Insect Maurice Davies, ‘A Shilling Séance’, Unorthodox
Life (1849)*; ‘The Water-Drops: A Fairy Tale’, Household London (1873); William Thackeray, ‘Roundabout papers
Words (1850); ‘The Science of Fairy-Tales’, Fun (1865); – No. XX. The notch on the axe – A story à la mode’,
Albert and George Gresswell, ‘The Climbing Fish’, The Cornhill Magazine (1862)*; John Tyndall, ‘Science
Wonderland of Evolution [1884]. Visions: Gideon and the Spirits’, Fragments of Science (1864); W H
Mantell, Wonders of Geology (1838)*; Horace Smith, Harrison, ‘The Scientific Investigation of Spiritualism,’
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Spiritualist (1869)*; Alfred Russel Wallace, ‘A Defence and History (1894); Annie Besant, Why I became
of Modern Spiritualism’, Fortnightly Review (1874)*; a Theosophist (1889); Algernon Blackwood, ‘Notes
‘The Spiritualists at Bow St’, Illustrated Police News on Theosophy’, Lucifer (1891); W T Stead, ‘How We
(1876); Jean-Martin Charcot, ‘Spiritualism and Intend to Study Borderland,’ Borderland (1893); A
Hysteria,’ Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous E Waite, ‘The Threefold Division of Mysticism’, The
System (1889). Psychical Research: Edward Unknown World (1894); William James, ‘A Suggestion
Cox, ‘The Province of Psychology,’ Proceedings of about Mysticism’, Essays in Philosophy. Fantastic
the Psychological Society of Great Britain (1875)*; Geographies: [Samuel Birley Rowbotham], ‘Parallax’,
‘Objects of the Society’, Proceedings of the Society Zetetic Astronomy (1873)*; [William Carpenter],
for Psychical Research (1882); ‘Report of the Literary ‘Common Sense’, Theoretical Astronomy Examined and
Committee’, PSPR (1882)*; F W H Myers, ‘Science Exposed (1864); John Hampden, advert in Scientific
and a Future Life’, Science and A Future Life (1893)*; Opinion (1870); Americus Symmes, ‘The Theory’, The
William Barrett, ‘Psychical Research’, Good Words Symmes Theory of Concentric Spheres, Demonstrating
(1891); ‘Spookical Research’, Saturday Review (1886). that the Earth is Hollow, Habitable Within, and Widely
Occultism: Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic, Open About the Poles (1878); Ignatius Donnelly, ‘The
its Doctrine and Ritual, trans A E Waite (1896)*; A Purpose of this Book’, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
E Waite, ‘In the Beginning’, The Unknown World : A (1882); W Scott-Elliott, ‘Description of Lemurian Man’,
Magazine devoted to Occult Sciences, Magic, Mystical The Lost Lemuria (1904).
Philosophy, Alchemy, Hermetic Archaeology, and the
Hidden Problems of Science, Literature, Speculation * extract/s from original text

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