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Better than a Travelling Circus: Museums and Meetings in Montreal During the Early 1880s
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Better than a Travelling Circus: Museums and Meetings in Montreal During the Early 1880s
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In the 1880s, Montreal became a city of international scientific importance with the 1882 opening of the Peter Redpath Museum, and the meetings in the city of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1882 and the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1884. Paleobotanist John William Dawson, Principal of McGill University and a leader in both Canada's geological survey and the Royal Society of Canada, was a major force in Montreal's scientific life. Under his inspiration, the collection that eventually became the centre of the Redpath Museum expanded from one fossil in 1855 to over 10,000 natural history specimens by 1862.
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada/Mémoire de la Société Royale du Canada
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Vol. 20
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499-518
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1982
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en
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Sheets-Pyenson, Susan. “Better than a Travelling Circus: Museums and Meetings in Montreal During the Early 1880s.” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada/Mémoire de la Société Royale du Canada Vol. 20 (1982): 499–518.
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