The Women Behind The Big Victorian Names
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Victorian Natural History Mania

Why did the Victorians fill their homes with ferns, fossils, shells and stuffed birds? This section looks at the great Victorian passion for natural history: the collectors, dealers and auction rooms, the amateur naturalists and the working men and women who did much of the finding, and the ships and railways that put the natural world within reach. It also looks at the arguments over faith and science that made it matter. The glass case is where it all ended up.