Richard Bellon

Biography

Richard Bellon is a historian of nineteenth-century science which means that, for much of the last several years, he has devoted much of his time to men with muttonchops who obsessed over the sex lives of plants. His 2011 essay, “Inspiration in the Harness of Daily Labor: Darwin, Botany and the Triumph of Evolution, 1859-1868,” won the 2013 Derek Price/Rob Webster Prize from the History of Science Society. His 2014 book A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellec