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This exhibition which ended just a few weeks ago, included more than 100 photographs from the National Gallery of Canada's own collection, ranging from the historical images of William Henry Fox Talbot, taken circa 1839, to the sophisticated architectural studies made by Frederick H. Evans at the beginning of the twentieth century. 

You can read an interview with Lori Pauli, Associate Curator of photographer at the NGC, on her thoughts behind the exhibition, her favourite photographs, which she considered to be most important etc, in an interview found here.

A Victorian science expert at St. John's University, Snyder offers a four-in-one biography of 19th-century scientists -  Whewell, Babbage, Jones, as well as John Herschel, who mapped the skies of the Southern hemisphere and coinvented photography. 
In 1812, when academic science was still a backward field, the four Cambridge students founded the Philosophical Breakfast Club, devoted to scientific discussion. Snyder provides insights into their personal lives, their myriad professional accomplishments, and their influence on science and economics.

An excerpt of this book can be found here, and if you are still keen you can search for it through the Amazon link on the right.

The International Mission Photography Archive offers over 60,000 historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, and the United States. The photographs, from the 1860s until World War II, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean. The photographs reveal the physical influence of missions, visible in mission compounds, churches, and school buildings, as well as the cultural impact of mission teaching, religious practices, and Western technology and fashions. Indigenous peoples' responses to missions and the emergence of indigenous churches are represented, as are views of landscapes, cities, and towns before and in the early stages of modern development.

The online archive can be accessed through this link here.