Download or read book Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland written by Diarmid A Finnegan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Finnegan's study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument.