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Smashing species: Joseph Hooker and Victorian science
Joseph Dalton Hooker once described classifying plants as "wild & exciting work, the species go smash smash every day'. In this talk Jim Endersby will show that understanding why Hooker was so keen to "smash" species, and how he did it, helps us understand much about Victorian science, especially why Darwin's ideas about species were both useful and dangerous to his friends and colleagues.