331 pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Precarious start -- Rising reputation -- The distant suburb -- The two Jameses -- Sowerby's botany -- Models and museum -- Troublesome exotic floras -- Sowerby's whale -- Minerals, crystals and colours -- Meteorites and a 'sword from heaven' -- A lot of rot -- Mineral conchology -- Societies philosophical and chemical -- Passing the baton
