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SUMMARY:Participating in Victorian natural history through the illustrated
  periodical - Geoffrey Belknap (University of Leicester)
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DESCRIPTION:The practice of illustrating Victorian natural history periodi
 cals was widespread throughout the century. Yet the value\, meaning and in
 tent of these illustrations as objects of scientific evidence within an es
 sential site of scientific communication is little understood. Focusing on
  the genre of the natural history journal between 1840 and 1890\, this tal
 k will evaluate the role of illustrations in offering an access point for 
 the amateur naturalists to participate within the knowledge community of t
 he Victorian periodical. A key aspect in this analysis will be to differen
 tiate between authors and readers of competing periodicals in order to eva
 luate whether there is an overlap between contributors and consumers of th
 e Victorian periodical. In this way\, this paper will pay particular atten
 tion to the category of the non-professional author and illustrator in ord
 er to better understand the role of the periodical in giving access to a w
 ide audience to the sites of production and reproduction of nineteenth-cen
 tury natural history. Highlighting the website www.sciencegossip.org\, the
  paper will also draw parallels between the historical practice of uncover
 ing participants in Victorian natural history through the periodical with 
 the modern practice of utilizing digital humanities tools – particularly
  citizen science/humanities – to generate and forward historical researc
 h.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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