Table of Contents
Introduction / Ian Inkster -- Whigs and savants / Roy M. MacLeod -- The London lecturing empire, 1800-50 / J.N. Hays -- The British Mineralogical Society / Paul Weindling -- 'Nibbling at the teats of science' / Steve Shapin -- Science in a commercial city / Michael Neve -- Rational dissent and provincial science / Derek Orange -- Economic and ornamental geology / Jack Morrell -- Medical elites, the general practitioner and patient power in Britain during the cholera epidemic of 1831-2 / Michael Durey.