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Heroes of science

Chapter 16: PUBLICATIONS OF THE Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
By P. Martin Duncan
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The book gathers concise biographies of major figures in botany, zoology, and geology, tracing the growth of each discipline from ancient observations to nineteenth-century systems and fieldwork. It recounts lives and labors of early naturalists, taxonomists, comparative anatomists, and earth scientists, highlighting how patient observation, classification, and methodological shifts—especially the move from catastrophism to uniformitarianism—advanced understanding. Chapters explain formative ideas, classification reforms, fossil study, and geological surveying while emphasizing perseverance, gradual accumulation of facts, and the practical habits that enabled discoveries. The work mixes historical narrative with thematic overviews to show how communities of researchers built modern natural science.

PUBLICATIONS
OF THE
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

Most of these Works may be had in Ornamental Bindings, with Gilt Edges, at a small extra charge.

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Against the Stream; the Story of an Heroic Age in England. By the author of “The Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family,” &c. With Eight full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 4 0
A “Leal Light Heart.” By Annette Lyster, author of “Northwind and Sunshine,” &c. With Four full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 3 6
Ambrose Oran; or, With the Buccaneers. By F. Scarlett Potter. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 0
Aunt Kezia’s Will. By S. M. Sitwell, author of “The Andrews Family,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Belfry of St. Jude (The). A Story. By Esmé Stuart, author of “Mimi.” With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 6
Bernard Hamilton: Curate of Stowe. By Mary E. Shipley, author of “Janetta,” &c. With Four full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 3 6
Brave Men of Eyam (The); or, a Tale of the Great Plague Year. By the Rev. E. N. Hoare, M.A., author of “Two Voyages,” “Mike,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 6
Captain Eva; The Story of a Naughty Girl. By Kathleen Knox. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Chryssie’s Hero. By Annette Lyster, author of “Fan’s Silken String,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 6
Christabel: the Flower Girl of Covent Garden. By the author of “Our Valley,” “Rosebuds,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Conquering and to Conquer; a Story of Rome in the Days of St. Jerome. By the author of “The Schönberg-Cotta Family,” &c. With Four full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 6
Cruise of the “Dainty” (The); or, Rovings in the Pacific. By the late W. H. G. Kingston. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 0
Dick Darlington, at Home and Abroad. By A. H. Engelbach, author of “Juanita,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 0
Fortunes of Hassan (The). Being the strange story of a Turkish Refugee, as told by himself. By the author of “Our Valley,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 6
Great Captain (The): an Eventful Chapter in Spanish History. By Ulick R. Burke, M.A. With Two full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 0
Harry’s Discipline. By Laura M. Lane, author of “A Character,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Harvey Compton’s Holiday. By the author of “Percy Trevor’s Training,” “Two Voyages,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Hasselaers (The); a Tale of Courage and Endurance. By Mrs. Frank Cooper. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Her Father’s Inheritance. By Crona Temple, author of “Through the Rough Wind,” &c. With Four full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 3 6
Hidden Workings. By Miss H. R. Russell, author of “Muriel,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 0
Hide and Seek; a Story of the New Forest in 1647. By Mrs. Frank Cooper. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 0
How Willie became a Hero. By the author of “Clary’s Confirmation,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 0
Invasion of Ivylands (The). By Annette Lyster, author of “Fan’s Silken String,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
John Holbrook’s Lessons. By M. E. Palgrave, author of “Marcel’s Duty.” With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
King’s Marden. By the author of “Our Valley,” &c. With Four full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 3 6
Kitty Bligh’s Birthday. By Alfred H. Engelbach, author of “Lionel’s Revenge,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Lapsed, not Lost; a Story of Roman Carthage. By the author of “The Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family,” &c. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 6
Marcel’s Duty: a Story of War-time. By Mary E. Palgrave, author of “John Holbrook’s Lesson.” With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 0
Mate of the “Lily” (The); or, Notes from Harry Musgrave’s Log-Book. By the late William H. G. Kingston, author of “Owen Hartley,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Mike; a Tale of the Great Irish Famine. By the Rev. E. N. Hoare, author of “Between the Locks,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Mimi: A Story of Peasant Life in Normandy. By Esmé Stuart, author of “The Little Brown Girl,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 6
Miscellanies of Animal Life. By Elizabeth Spooner, author of “Daily Readings for a Year,” &c. With Illustrations. Post 8vo. Cloth boards 2 0
Missy and Master. By M. Bramston, author of “The Snowball Society,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 0
My Lonely Lassie. By Annette Lyster, author of “Mrs. Dobbs’ Dull Boy,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 6
Round my Table. By H. L. Childe-Pemberton, author of “Under the Trees,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Slavers and Cruisers. By S. W. Sadler, Esq., R.N., author of “Marshall Vavassour,” &c. With Four full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 3 6
Steffan’s Angel, and other Stories. By M. E. Townsend. With Three page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 6
Sweet William. By Mrs. Thomas Erskine. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Through the Rough Wind; a Story of the Collieries. By Crona Temple, author of “Etta’s Fairies,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Two Shipmates (The). By the late W. H. G. Kingston, author of “Ned Garth,” &c., &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Under the Trees. By H. L. Childe-Pemberton, author of “Round my Table,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Unto his Life’s End. A book for choir-boys. By Ursula, author of “Little Things,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6
Vanda. By Esmé Stuart, author of “The Little Brown Girl,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 0
White Chapel (The); a Story. By Esmé Stuart, author of “Mimi,” &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 2 0
White Gipsy (The). By Annette Lyster. With Four full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards 3 0

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