The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R.A., the Naturalist in H.M.S. Alert, 1875-1876

About

Trevor Levere taught for many years in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Toronto where he was twice Director. There he supervised 22 PhD students beginning in 1968 and ending with the graduation of his final PhD student in 2018. He is now University Professor Emeritus a Fellow of Victoria College and a Senior Fellow of Massey College. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society membre effectif de lAcadémie Internationale dHistoire des Sciences (Paris) a Foreign Member of the Koningklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Haarlem NL) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His first degree was in chemistry which he studied at New College Oxford but he soon moved to the history of chemistry. Although he constantly returns to that field he has worked in several other areas of the history of science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Arctic science and science in Canada among them: his numerous books include Science and the Canadian Arctic: A Century of Exploration 18181918 (Cambridge 1993) for which the first stages of research were carried out at the Scott Polar Research Institute and at Clare Hall in Cambridge. He and his wife Jennifer live in Toronto and also in July and August on Garden Island in Lake Ontario in a summer home which is just big enough to house the three generations of their Canadian family.