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SUMMARY:Victoria's secret: science and the monarchy - Donald Opitz (DePaul
  University\, Chicago)
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CONTACT:Caitlin Wylie
DESCRIPTION:Only weeks after Queen Victoria's coronation\, a controversy b
 rewed over the naming of the South American 'vegetable wonder' (known toda
 y\nas _Victoria amazonica_)\, 'discovered' by Robert Schomburgk that New Y
 ear's Day\, 1837. This prominent water lily created a horticultural sensat
 ion\, aspiring to such renown as 'the most extraordinary and most gorgeous
  member of the Vegetable Kingdom' in parallel with Princess Victoria's own
  ascension. I revisit the controversy surrounding the naming of this lily 
 to consider the manner by which its royal appeal - and its secrets - illus
 trates more broadly the making of 'Victorian science'.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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