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  1. David Brewster at the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Science, politics, and patronage in Scotland

    Article • The Scottish Historical Review, April 2022, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  2. The ‘Stronsay Beast’: testimony, evidence and authority in early early nineteenth-century natural history

    Article • Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, January 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  3. The mind’s magic lantern: David Brewster and the scientific imagination

    Article • History of European Ideas, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  4. Variation, adaptation and the natural history of man in post-Enlightenment Edinburgh

    Article • The British Journal for the History of Science, June 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  5. Commercial scientific journals and their editors in Edinburgh, 1819–32

    Article • Centaurus, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  6. Broadie and Smith (eds), The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment, second edition

    Article • The Scottish Historical Review, April 2020, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  7. Physiology of the Haunted Mind: Naturalistic Theories of Apparitions

    Article • Journal of the History of Ideas, January 2020, Project Muse

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  8. Evolution Before Darwin. Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804–1834

    Article • November 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  9. Introduction

    Article • November 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  10. Conclusion

    Article • November 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  11. Geology and Evolution

    Article • November 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  12. Natural History in Edinburgh, 1779–1832

    Article • November 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  13. The Legacy of the ‘Edinburgh Lamarckians’

    Article • November 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  14. Edinburgh and Paris

    Article • November 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  15. Edinburgh’s University and Medical Schools in the Early Nineteenth Century

    Article • November 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  16. The X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian Science, by Ruth Barton

    Article • Intellectual History Review, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  17. The platypus in Edinburgh: Robert Jameson, Robert Knox and the place of theOrnithorhynchusin nature, 1821–24

    Article • Annals of Science, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  18. Evangelicals and the Plurality of Worlds Debate in Scotland, 1810–55

    Article • Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, November 2015, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  19. Neptunism and Transformism: Robert Jameson and other Evolutionary Theorists in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland

    Article • Journal of the History of Biology, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  20. Phrenology, heredity and progress in George Combe's Constitution of Man

    Article • The British Journal for the History of Science, May 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Bill Jenkins

  21. Henry H. Cheek and transformism: new light on Charles Darwin's Edinburgh background

    Article • Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, December 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Bill Jenkins