Metropolis and Province

Chapter 1 Introduction: Aspects of the history of science and science culture in Britain, 1780-1850 and beyond, Ian Inkster; Chapter 2 Whigs and savants: reflections on the reform movement in the Royal Society, 1830-48, Roy M. MacLeod; Chapter 3 The London lecturing empire, 1800-50, J. N. Hays; Chapter 4 The British Mineralogical Society: a case study in science and social improvement, Paul Weindling; Chapter 5 'Nibbling at the teats of science': Edinburgh and the diffusion of science in the 1830s, Steven Shapin; Chapter 6 Science in a commercial city: Bristol 1820-60, Michael Neve; Chapter 7 Rational dissent and provincial science: William Turner and the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society, Derek Orange; Chapter 8 Economic and ornamental geology: the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1837-53, Jack Morrell; Chapter 9 Medical elites, the general practitioner and patient power in Britain during the cholera epidemic of 1831-2, Michael Durey;