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Conference Announcement:  "Science and Visual Imagination in the Nineteenth
Century."  (Friday, May 29, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m; Saturday, May 30,
9:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m).  Friends' Hall, The Huntington Library, Art
Collections, and Botanic Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, California,
91108-1218.

Scholars from a variety of disciplines will explore how scientific images
and the visual language of scientific representation influenced and were
influenced by broader issues in the nineteenth century.  Conference
registration is $20.00 (free for graduate students); additional cost for
optional lunches and evening banquet on Friday.  To receive a brochure with
complete schedule and registration information, please contact the Research
Department of the Huntington Library at 626-405-2194 or via e-mail at
cpowell @huntington. org.

Schedule:
                                Friday, May 29
8:30 a.m        Registration and Coffee
9:30 a.m.
                Welcome:  Robert C. Ritchie (The Huntington)
                Remarks:  Jennifer Tucker (Caltech)

Session 1       Mapping

Moderator:  Alison Winter (Caltech)
Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge)
                "The Traveler's Eye:  Nineteenth-Century Description and
Illustration"
Jane Camerini (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
                "Visual Arguments and Thematic Mapping"
Anne Secord (University of Cambridge)
                "Observing Differences:  Artisans, Gentlemen, and the
Work of Nineteenth-Century Botany"

12:30 p.m.      Lunch

2:00
Session 2       Truth

Moderator:  Amy Meyers (The Huntington)

Bernard Lightman (York University)
                "Visual Rhetoric in Victorian Popularizations of Science"
Jonathan Ribner (Boston University)
                "The Autumn of Natural Theology"

5:00 Reception and Exhibition Openings
                "Margaret Mee:  Return to the Amazon," catered
compliments of Twin Palms Restaurant

                                Saturday, May 30
9:30 a.m.       Registration and Coffee
10:00
Session 3       Empire

Moderator:  Jennifer Watts (The Huntington)

Elizabeth Edwards (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)
                "'Professor Huxley's Well-Considered Plan':  Photography,
Ambiguity, and Anthropological Intention"

Christopher Lawrence (The Wellcome Institute for the History of
Medicine)
                "Colonizing the Interior:  Mapping Body and Empire in the
Nineteenth Century"
James Ryan (University of Oxford)
                "Visualization and the Science of Empire:  Photography,
Geography, and British Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century"

12:30 p.m.  Lunch

2:00
Session 4       Graphic Method
Moderator: Bettyann Kevles (Art Center College of Design)
Robert Brain  (Harvard University)
                "The Physiognomy of the Accused:  The Dispute over
Graphology in the Dreyfus Affair"
Lisa Cartwright (University of Rochester)
                "Is the History of the Body Necessarily a History of its
Representation?  Some Notes Toward a Theory of Comparative
Anatomical Realism"