’I can't think of a comparable figure in our own day and highly recommend this book as an insight into Lubbock's life and times.’ Scientific and Medical Network Review ’It is a pleasure to read and I shall be recommending it highly to students in my nineteenth-century science course.’ Charlotte Sleigh, University of Canterbury at Kent, in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences ’Patton's book...is not simply a monograph but a 'books in a book' type of endeavour with exceptional coherence in the argument and consistency in the biographical and chronological methodology employed. Anyone interested in political history or business history and the histories of archaeology and science but also anyone more generally involved with the institutional details and contexts of nineteenth century British men of science in their varied endeavours should read Patton's book.’ Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
