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Frederic W H Myers Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843–1901) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> , Report of the Society of Psychical Research Annual Report of the Council and Statement of Accounts of the Society for Psychical Research (1884–1900+) British Library Catalogue
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Psychical Research, Psychology, Controversy

People mentioned:

Frank Podmore Podmore, Frank (1856–1910) ODNB
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Thomas M Dolan Dolan, Thomas Michael (b. 1844) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Contemporary Review Contemporary Review (1866–1900+) Waterloo Directory
Close   View the register entry >> , Charles B Taylor Taylor, Charles Bell (1829–1909) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> , National Review National Review (1883–1900+) Sullivan 1984
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Subjects:

Disease, Statistics, Error, Charlatanry

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Louis Pasteur Pasteur, Louis (1822–95) DSB
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Edward Carpenter Carpenter, Edward (1844–1929) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> , Macmillan's Magazine Macmillan's Magazine (1859–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Pollution, Industry, Machinery, Electricity

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Hiram A Stanley Stanley, Hiram Alonzo (b. 1859) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP
Close   View the register entry >> , Journal of Mental Science Journal of Mental Science (1858–1900+) Waterloo Directory
Close   View the register entry >> , Herbert L Snow Snow, Herbert Lumley (1847–1930) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Heredity, Darwinism, Human Species, Breeding, Eugenics, Mental Illness, Degeneration

    Complains that all three articles fail to recognise that any plans to apply artificial selection to human breeding can be effected only 'by capital punishment, by surgical operation, or by perpetual imprisonment'.

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Benjamin Waugh Waugh, Benjamin (1839–1908) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> , Contemporary Review Contemporary Review (1866–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Anti-Scientism, Heredity, Darwinism, Human Species, Eugenics, Degeneration, Morality

    Reports that 'scientists are clamouring for State legalised murder in the interests of artificial selection' and 'deploring the perversity of maudlin philanthropists in preserving alive those whom the beneficent law of elimination would send to their graves'. The 'immortal principle of the survival of the fittest and the doctrine of heredity' nevertheless point towards the need for some regulation of human reproduction.

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Vragen des Tijds Vragen des Tijds (1875–1900+) COPAC
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Universities, Education, National Efficiency

    In the view of the Dutch, the University of Oxford University of Oxford
Close   View the register entry >> and University of Cambridge University of Cambridge
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Abstract

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Bronson C Keeler Keeler, Bronson C (fl. 1880) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Telegraphy, Statistics, Commerce, Government

Institutions mentioned:

Western Union Telegraph Company Western Union Telegraph Company
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    Comments that 'the experience of England tells very strongly in favour of State telegraphy', and urges that the private ownership of the telegraph system in North America should be ended.

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Abstract

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Thomas H Huxley Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Religion, Controversy

    Suggests that Huxley's judgement of 'the accounts given in Genesis of the Creation and of the Deluge as "lies" [...] is significant of the mental temperature in which the article is written'.

See also:

Desmond 1997 Desmond, Adrian 1997. Huxley: Evolution's High Priest, Michael Joseph
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Abstract

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La Marine Française Marine Française, La (1888–1900+) Bibliotheque Nationale
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Subjects:

Military technology, Electricity, Machinery

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Abstract

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Deutsche Revue Deutsche Revue (1877–1900+) BUCOP
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Astronomy, Imagination, Superstition

    Reports that the 'imagination of all nations has busied itself a great deal with the dark spots in the moon', and several 'strange myths and superstitions have sprung up'.

Genre:

Abstract

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Lippincott's Monthly Magazine Lippincott's Monthly Magazine of Literature, Science and Education (1868–70) Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science (1871–85) Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (1886–1900+) WaterlooDirectory
Close   View the register entry >> , Clara S J B Moore Moore, Clara Sophia Jessup Bloomfield (1824–99) WBI
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Subjects:

Genius, Heterodoxy, Force, Electricity, Discovery, Invention, Science Fiction

People mentioned:

John E W Keely Keely, John Ernst Worrell (1827–98) WBI
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    Warns the 'sceptic and scornful from venturing further' into an article which nominates the man who 'discovered vril, the mysterious force' that is 'the governing medium of the universe' as the 'greatest genius of our age'. Also notes that 'Lord Lytton Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> drew attention' to vril in his science fiction novel The Coming Race Lytton, Edward George Lytton Bulwer 1871. The Coming Race, Edinburgh: William Blackwood
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Abstract

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Woman's World Lady's World (1886–87) Woman's World (1887–90) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Public Health, Gender, Temperance, Secularism, Lecturing, Physiology

People mentioned:

William W Gull Gull, Sir William Withey, 1st Baronet (1816–90) ODNB
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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Benjamin W Richardson Richardson, Benjamin Ward (1828–96) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> , Asclepiad Asclepiad (1884–95) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Mesmerism, Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Anaesthesia, Boundary Formation

    Notes that Richardson's article dismisses hypnotism as a 'contagious [...] epidemic' and also claims 'that Napoleon Napoleon I, Emperor of France (1769–1821) CBD
Close   View the register entry >> hypnotised and governed by soldierly suggestion thousands of men who, on the field of battle, knew no fear. Under the same kind of power a medical practitioner can sometimes abolish physical pain; but it is not a method that can be depended upon with any certainty'. For Richardson 'the hypnotic method will never become a serious rival of the physical anaesthesia, local and general, produced by ether' and will soon be seen as merely one of many 'passing vanities'.

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Abstract

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Henri Berr Berr, Henri (1863–1954) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Nouvelle Revue Nouvelle Revue (1879–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Sociology, Natural Law, Progress, Statistics, Mathematics, Heroism

People mentioned:

Louis Bourdeau, Bourdeau, Louis (1824–1900) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> Thomas Carlyle Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881) ODNB
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William E H Lecky Lecky, William Edward Hartpole (1838–1903) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Religion, Rationalism, Agnosticism

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Herbert L Snow Snow, Herbert Lumley (1847–1930) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , National Review National Review (1883–1900+) Sullivan 1984
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Subjects:

Disease, Medical Treatment, Heterodoxy, Quackery, Boundary Formation

People mentioned:

Cesare Mattei Mattei, Cesare (1809–96) WBI
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Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

William C P Breckinridge Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston (1837–1904) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Arena Arena (1889–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Race, Biblical Authority

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Cyrus Edson Edson, Cyrus (1857–1903) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Disease, Medical Treatment, Public Health

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Cornhill Magazine Cornhill Magazine (1860–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Psychical Research | Ornithology

Institutions mentioned:

Society for Psychical Research Society for Psychical Research
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Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Aus Allen Weltteilen Aus Allen Weltteilen (1870–98) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Physical Geography, Popularization

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Rassegna Nazionale Rassegna Nazionale (1879–1900+) BUCOP
Close   View the register entry >> , Naturen Naturen (1877–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Anti-Scientism, Evolution, Gender | Heredity

People mentioned:

Grant Allen, Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie) (1848–99) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Henry H Ellis Ellis, Henry Havelock (1859–1939) ODNB
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Review, Abstract

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Musical Opinion Musical Opinion and Music Trade Review (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory BUCOP
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Subjects:

Music, Sound, Theory

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Jahrbucher fur die Deutsche Armee und Marine Jahrbücher fur die Deutsche Armee und Marine (1871–1900+) BUCOP
Close   View the register entry >> , Internationale Revue uber die Gesammten Armeen und Flotten Internationale Revue uber die Gesammten Armeen und Flotten (1882–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Military Technology, Industrial Chemistry

People mentioned:

Alfred B Nobel Nobel, Alfred Bernhard (1833–96) DSB
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Abstract

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John Tyndall Tyndall, John (1820–93) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Scientific Practitioners, Schools, Mapping, Mathematics, Universities, Scientific Naturalism

People mentioned:

Edward Frankland, Frankland, Sir Edward (1825–99) DSB DNODNBB
Close   View the register entry >> Thomas Carlyle, Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Robert W E Bunsen Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811–99) DSB
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Preston Mechanics' Institute, Preston Mechanics' Institute
Close   View the register entry >> Queenswood College, Queenswood College, Stockbridge, Hampshire
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Abstract

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Anglo-Austrian Anglo-Austrian (cited 1890) RR1-2-2a-4
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Subjects:

Darwinism, Anti-Scientism

Genre:

Abstract

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Photographic Quarterly Photographic Quarterly (1889–92) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Photography, Amateurism

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Abstract

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Jules B Luys Luys, Jules Bernard (1828–97) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Fortnightly Review Fortnightly Review (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory
Close   View the register entry >> , C Theodore Ewart Ewart, Charles Theodore (1856–1917) WIVP
Close   View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory
Close   View the register entry >> , Quarterly Review Quarterly Review (1809–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Mesmerism, Psychology, Disease, Medical Treatment, Magnetism, Evolution,

    Abstracts the latest research on 'that new and most uncanny of modern sciences, which may revolutionize most of the received ideas as to the constitution and laws of the mind of man'.

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Abstract

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Walburga E H Paget Paget, Countess Walburga Ehrengarde Helena de (d. 1929) ODNB, s.v. Paget, Sir Augustus Berkeley
Close   View the register entry >> , National Review National Review (1883–1900+) Sullivan 1984
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Subjects:

Disease, Medical Treatment, Homeopathy, Heterodoxy, Medical Practitioners

People mentioned:

Cesare Mattei Mattei, Cesare (1809–96) WBI
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Abstract

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Cécile Vincens Vincens, Cécile (b. 1840) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Nouvelle Revue Nouvelle Revue (1879–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Ethnography

Genre:

Editorial

Subjects:

Religion, Controversy, Error

    Apologises for printing 'a railing accusation against Professor Huxley Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> last month which he did not deserve'. The 'blunder' was caused by mistaking the verb "lies" for a noun. (143)

See also:

Anon, 'Culture and Current Orthodoxy. Is There a Barrier Between Them?', Review of Reviews, 2 (1890), 43

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Abstract

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Emile, comte de Kératry Kératry, Emile, comte de (b. 1832) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Revue des Deux Mondes Revue des Deux Mondes (1831–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Agriculture, Government

Genre:

Abstract

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Oliver W Holmes Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–94) CBD
Close   View the register entry >> , Atlantic Monthly Magazine Atlantic Monthly Magazine (1857–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Spiritualism, Electricity, Railways, Creation, Anti-Scientism

    Extracts Holmes's claim that even in this 'age of cynicism' the 'form of cosmic vitality which we call electricity' should induce 'reverence'. Holmes comments, 'How near the mystic effluence of mechanical energy brings us to the divine source of all power and motion!'. He also describes 'electric tramcar[s]' as 'mighty caravans' powered by a 'mystic impulse'.

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Abstract

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Helena P H Blavatsky Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna Hahn (1831–91) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> , Universal Review Universal Review (1888–94) Waterloo Directory
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Gender, Materialism, Anti-Scientism, Theosophy

    Reports that for 'a great number of [...] readers' Grant Allen Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie) (1848–99) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> 'should be placed under the major excommunication by all editors, and never again be allowed to sign an article in any periodical read by decent people'.

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Abstract

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Marie F Brunetière Brunetière, Marie Ferdinand (1840 or 1849–1906) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Revue des Deux Mondes Revue des Deux Mondes (1831–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Sociology, Anthropology

Genre:

Abstract

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Alice Werner Werner, Alice (1859–1935) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> , Gentleman's Magazine Gentleman's Magazine (1731–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Race, Ethnology

Genre:

Abstract

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Photographic Quarterly Photographic Quarterly (1889–92) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Photography, Light

Genre:

Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Rintje K Kuipers Kuipers, Rintje Klaas (b. 1847) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Vragen des Tijds Vragen des Tijds (1875–1900+) COPAC
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Spiritualism, Class, Morality

    Describes the 'spread of spiritualism in Holland, especially among the so-called cultivated middle classes' for whom neither the orthodoxy of the lower classes nor the unbelief of the educated upper classes can uphold the moral codes which underpin the social order.

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Abstract

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John S Vaughan Vaughan, John Stephen (1853–1925) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Dublin Review Dublin Review (1836–60) Wiseman Review (1861–85) Dublin Review (1885–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Christianity, Eschatology, Miracle, Natural Economy

    Vaughan's Catholic view is that 'the world will continue until every particle of its immense bulk has passed through human bodies, and the whole of its enormous weight will be just sufficient to furnish forth new bodies for the human race when the trumpet sounds for the Resurrection!'.

Genre:

Review, Abstract

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Edinburgh Review Edinburgh Review (1802–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Ornithology

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Pioneer Pioneer: A Quarterly Magazine Issued by the Pioneer Club. (1887–91) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Scientific Practitioners

People mentioned:

Herbert Spencer Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) DSB
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Institutions mentioned:

Athenaeum Club Athenaeum Club
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Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Photographic Quarterly Photographic Quarterly (1889–92) Waterloo Directory
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Photography

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

George J Romanes Romanes, George John (1848–94) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> , Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century (1877–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Biblical Authority, Geology, Natural History

Genre:

Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

David P Todd Todd, David Peck (1855–1939) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> , Forum Forum (1886–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Astronomy, Instruments, Photography | Military Technology, Industrial Chemistry | Physical Geography

Institutions mentioned:

United States Eclipse Expedition to West Africa United States Eclipse Expedition to West Africa
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Review, Abstract

Publications reviewed:

Neue Militärische Blätter Neue Militärische Blätter (1875–1900+) BUCOP
Close   View the register entry >> , Rivista di Artiglieria e Genio Rivista di Artiglieria e Genio (1884–1900+) European Library Portal
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Subjects:

Military Technology, Engineering

Genre:

Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Helena P H Blavatsky Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna Hahn (1831–91) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> , North American Review North American Review (1815–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Theosophy, Psychical Research, Spiritualism, Materialism

    Contends that the 'Theosophical Society Theosophical Society
Close   View the register entry >> hatched the Psychical Research Society Society for Psychical Research
Close   View the register entry >>, but it has much more vitality than its chicken'. Also reports Blavatsky's claim that the theosophical movement is 'a necessity of the age' in its search for 'scientific proofs of the existence and predominance of the higher self' and its support for 'spirituality as opposed to materialism'.

Genre:

Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Helena P H Blavatsky Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna Hahn (1831–91) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> , Lucifer Lucifer (1887–97) Theosophical Review (1897–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Imperialism, Ethnology, Race, Natural Imperialism, Extinction

    Blavatsky argues that the English are not in a position to criticise Russian atrocities in Siberia when, as Carl Lumholtz Lumholtz, Carl (1851–1922) WBI
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