Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

PART II Volume 6 Science, Race and Imperialism Introduction Travel and Exploration: Jehangir Naoroji and Hirjibhoy Meherwanji, Journal of a Residence of Two Years and a Half in Great Britain (1841) George Biddell Airy, ‘Astronomy’ (1849) Joseph Dalton Hooker, Himalayan Journals (1854) Paul Du Chaillu, Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa (1861) Nasir al-Din Shah, The Diary of H.M. The Shah of Persia during his Tour in Europe in A.D. 1873 (1874) Francis Galton, Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa (1889) ‘Lady Astronomer’ [Elizabeth Brown], Caught in the Tropics (1891) exhibiting and Collecting: Andrew Smith, ‘Introductory Remarks’ and ‘A Description of Birds Inhabiting the South of Africa’ (1830) The Industry of Nations as Exemplified in the Great Exhibition of 1851 (1852) John Conolly, The Ethnological Exhibitions of London (1855) Trailokya Nath Mukharji, A Visit to Europe (1889) William Fawcett, ‘The Public Gardens and Plantations of Jamaica’ (1897) Natural Theologies: John Williams, A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Seas (1837) Alexander Wylie, ‘Brief Introduction’ to the Shanghae Serial (1857) Henry Baker Tristram, The Natural History of the Bible (1867) Race and the Human Sciences: John Crawfurd, ‘On the Malayan and Polynesian Languages and Races’ (1848) James Hunt, The Negro’s Place in Nature (1863) 1Report on Charles Staniland Wake, ‘Psychological Unity of Mankind’ (1868) Jones Henry Lamprey, ‘On a Method of Measuring the Human Form for the Use of Students in Ethnology’ (1869) Thomas H. Huxley, ‘On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Man’ (1870) T. G. B. Lloyd, ‘On the “Beothucs,” a Tribe of Red Indians, Supposed to be Extinct, Which Formerly Inhabited Newfoundland’ (1875) Edward Tregear, The Aryan Maori (1885) Isaac Taylor, Origin of the Aryans (1890) Harry Johnston, ‘The Empire and Anthropology’ (1909) Imperial Technologies and the Sciences of Governance: ‘Construction of a Road from Colombo to Kandy’, Anonymous Ballad from Sri Lanka, palm-leaf manuscript ([c. 1825]) Robert Schomburgk, Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (1841) Roderick Murchison, ‘Address to the Royal Geographical Society of London’ (1852) Abdul Latif Khan Bahadur, A Discourse on the Nature, Objects, and Advantages of the Periodical Census (1865) J. Clerk, ‘Suez Canal’ (1869) John Augustus Voelcker, Report on the Improvement of Indian Agriculture (1893) John Henniker Heaton, ‘An Imperial Telegraph System’ (1899) Science, Nationalism and Anti-Colonialism: Mahendralal Sarkar, ‘On the Desirability of Cultivation of the Sciences by the Natives of India’ (1869) James Hector, ‘On Recent Moa Remains in New Zealand’ (1871) ‘Introduction’ to al-Muqtataf (1876) ‘India’s Gif to the World’ (1895) Charles Metcalfe, ‘Presidential Address’ (1903) Edward W. Blyden, Africa and the Africans (1903) Bal Gangadhar Tilak, ‘Bharata Dharma Mahamandala’ (1906) Editorial Notes

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