Science, Technology and Medicine, Part II
NINETEENTH CENTURY COLLECTIONS ONLINE
Nineteenth Century
Collections Online provides
full-text, fully searchable
content from a wide rangeof primary sources. Thesearchives support diverse
academic disciplines ofstudy, offering exciting, newresearch opportunities forone of the most studied
historical periods.

QUICK FACTS• Languages: English, 			
French, German, Italian, 		Russian , Spanish,among others• Manuscripts, monographs, 		periodicals, photographs• Recommended for academic 		
institutions with programsin history, medicine,technology, and the historyof scienceThe goal of Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine, Part II, isto assist students and professional researchers in locating science in the mainstream of historical
study. By taking “deep dives” into specialized fields of knowledge, the two parts of this collection
promote critical thinking at both the undergraduate and advanced levels of study.
Popular research topics include: the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, government’srole (or absence of a role) in social policy and poor relief, the Darwinian Revolution, and theinfluence of journal literature in the specialization of the modern fields of science, social science,
the humanities, and the general study of knowledge.

Collections include:• NATURAL HISTORY (some 500,000 pages from the Huntington Library) — This
diverse topic set includes zoology, botany, and earth science, focusing onthe study of theatmosphere, the history of soils and agriculture, as well as geology and the formation of theEarth. Printed works in natural history often included narratives of authors’ travels, such as
those by John Burroughs, William Henry Hudson, and Richard Jefferies.
• ENTOMOLOGY (some 100,000 pages from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library,University of Alberta) — As entomological knowledge advanced, it generated an outpouringof publications featuring increasinglyaccurate and sophisticated illustrations. This period left
a legacy of books boasting both scientific significance and great aesthetic beauty.
• THE RISE OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN ENGLAND AND WALES (some 400,000 pages fromthe National Archives) — This collection hosts the first digitized content from Poor Law
Union Correspondences. The New Poor Law of 1834 created medical districts within poor
law unions to which medical officers were appointed and around which local services werebuilt. Urban and Rural Social Conditions in Industrial Britain includes: The Local Reports
to the General Board of Health, 1848-1857, The Reports to the Local Government Board,
1869-1908, and The Journal of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1888-1920.
• ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS (more than 2 million pages) — Ideas,
findings, and inventions discovered by scholars of the great Enlightenment were firstpublished in the Transactions or Memoirs of an Academy of Science. Publications such as theseprovide not only a foundation source for the history of science, but also for researchers
across numerous academic fields, including psychology, sociology, philosophy, linguistics, art
history, and literature. The most extensive coverage spotlights Europe and North America.

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Curators for Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology andMedicine, Part II, include:• Daniel Lewis, Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & Technology, The Huntington 		
Library, Research Associate Professor of History School of Arts and Humanities, History, 		Claremont Graduate University• Amy Fisher, Assistant Professor, Science, Technology and Society Program, University ofPuget Sound• Joseph M. Gabriel, Assistant Professor, Florida State University, College of Medicine©2014. Gale, Cengage Learning, is a registered trademark used herein under license.
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