I'd suggest as well This Thing of Darkness, by Harry Thompson, which is about the voyages of the Beagle, and has lots of interesting material about the development of geology and biology, as well as the relatioship between science and colonialism in the 19th century.
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Date: 2009-06-02 01:51 pm (UTC)