Archives of Natural History

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(The median citation count of Archives of Natural History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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PECK, Robert McCracken. The natural history of Edward Lear4
ROY, Malini, SHARP JONES, Cam and TIPP, Cheryl. Animals: art, science & sound. The British Library, London: 2023. 320 pp.; illustrated. Price £35 (hardback). ISBN 9780712354332 (book trade 4
BAINBRIDGE, David. Palaeontology: an illustrated history3
ROOKMAAKER L. C. (Kees). The rhinoceros of South Asia. Emergence of Natural History series, Volume 6. Brill, Leiden and Boston: 2024. iv, 835 pp.; illustrated. Price €295. ISBN 9789004544888 (h3
MABBERLEY, David J., MOORE, David T., with the assistance of WOJER, Jacek. The Robert Brown handbook. A guide to the life and work of Robert Brown (1773–1858) Scottish botanist3
The 1940 monograph that has preserved natural history records of the lost raised bog of Šepeta, Lithuania (Archives of Natural History 51.2: 253–272).3
BIRKHEAD, Tim. Birds and us: a 12,000-year history, from cave art to conservation3
AVERY, Charles, COWIE, Helen, SHAW, Samuel and WENLEY, Robert. Miss Clara and the celebrity beast in art 1500–18602
Sir John Hill (1714–1775): where was he buried?2
William Elias Helman Pidsley (1867–1905) and his collection of birds2
GASSÓ MIRACLE, Maria Eulàlia. Coenraad Jacob Temminck and the emergence of systematics (1800–1850)2
WITTON, Mark P. and MICHEL, Ellinor. The art and science of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs2
Casey Albert Wood and The fundus oculi of birds (1917)2
BUTLER, Patricia. Drawn from nature. The flowering of Irish botanical art2
When did Alexander Philipp Maximilian, Prinz zu Wied-Neuwied, first describe Felis macroura?2
Stanisław Batys Gorski’s botanical research in the Białowieża Primeval Forest during the 1820s2
KISLING, Vernon N. (editor). Zoo and aquarium history: ancient animal collections to conservation centers2
The 1940 monograph that has preserved natural history records of the lost raised bog of Šepeta, Lithuania2
CAREY, Brycchan, GREENFIELD, Sayre and MILNE, Anne. Birds in eighteenth-century literature: reason, emotion, and ornithology 1700–18402
Philip Henry Gosse: more additions, mainly horticultural, to his bibliography1
COWIE, Helen L. Victims of fashion: animal commodities in Victorian Britain1
Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912): his development as an ornithologist until his departure from Etawah district, India, in 18671
ROTHFELS, Nigel. Elephant trails: a history of animals and cultures1
Peter Artedi's “Manuscriptum ichthyologicum”, a source for Albertus Seba's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio (1759)1
OLSON, Roberta J. M. Audubon as artist: A new look at The Birds of America. Reaktion Books, London: 2024. 383 pp; illustrated. Price £35 (hardback), US$40. ISBN 9781789148381.1
Evidence for a remarkable survival of invertebrates from the teaching collection of William MacGillivray (1796–1852), Marischal College, Aberdeen1
Mo Koundje (“Mok”): the life of a western lowland gorilla (c.1929–1938)1
PÄSSLER, Ulrich (editor). Alexander von Humboldt. Geographie der Pflanzen. Unveröffentlichte Schriften aus dem Nachlass1
JACKSON, Christine E. A newsworthy naturalist: the life of William Yarrell1
Private trading in African wildlife: Alwin Karl Haagner's directorship of and departure from South Africa's National Zoological Gardens, Pretoria (1913–1926) (W. T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 2023)1
Alfonso Palanza (1851–1899): a late nineteenth-century Italian botanist and his herbaria1
DOBRASZCZYK, Paul. Animal architecture: beasts, building and us. Reaktion Books, London. 268 pp.; illustrated. Price £25 (hardback). ISBN 9781789146929.1
Wooden barrels for transporting and preserving natural history specimens in the eighteenth century1
Natural history, ethnography and private collecting: the legacy of Frederic William Lucas (1842–1932)1
BROBERG, Gunnar. The man who organized nature: the life of Linnaeus1
CARINE, Mark (editor). The collectors. Creating Hans Sloane's extraordinary herbarium1
KNAPP, Sandra. In the name of plants. Remarkable plants and the extraordinary people behind their names1
Marine mammals of the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838–1842: history and taxonomy1
VANE-WRIGHT, Richard I. (Introduction) in partnership with the OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Iconotypes. A compendium of butterflies and moths. Jones’s Icones complete1
The journey of the giant panda ‘Grandma’ (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) from China to Britain in 1938–19391
SMITH, Paul and EGMOND, Florike (editors). Ichthyology in context (1500–1800). Brill, Leiden: 2023. 726pp.; illustrated. Price €199 (hardback). ISBN 9789004681170.1
DAVIDSON, Nick. The greywacke: how a priest, a soldier and a school teacher uncovered 300 million years of history1
Wooden replicas of great auk eggs created (c.1922) by Stephen James Goodall (1825–1896)1
John K’Eogh’s Zoologia medicinalis Hibernica (1739) and the duplicitous “Bernard Mandeville” re-issue (1744)1
Museum Boltenianum … pars prima continens animalia in spiritu vini adservata … (c.1797, Hamburg): bibliographic and nomenclatural notes1
Giant tortoises collected from Charles Island (Isla Floreana), Galápagos, during the voyage of USS Potomac, 1831–18341
DESMOND, Adrian. Reign of the beast: the atheist world of W. D. Saull and his museum of evolution. Open Book Publishers, Cambridge: 2024. x, 660 pp. Price £42.95 (hardback), £29.95 (paperback),1
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SCHLOSSMAN, Marc. Extinction: our fragile relationship with life on Earth1
IRMSCHER, Christoph and KING, Richard J. (editors). Audubon at sea: the coastal & transatlantic adventures of John James Audubon1
SAGAL, Anna K. Botanical entanglements: women, natural science, and the arts in eighteenth-century England1
The ‘Moving Plant of Bengal’: introduction to Western gardens, naming and early representation, poetic and graphic1
MOSTOWSKA, Agnieszka, ROSTAŃSKI, Adam and MIKUŁA, Anna (editors). Polskie Towarzystwo Botaniczne w setną rocznicę powstania (1922–2022) [Centenary of the Polish Botanical Society (1922–2022)1
BERWICK, Leonie and CHARMANTIER, Isabelle (editors). L: 50 objects, stories and discoveries from the Linnean Society of London1
Temporality and materiality in Father Pierre Nicolas Le Chéron d'Incarville's herbaria, from the Jesuit mission in China to the Jussieu collection in Paris (1740–1757)1
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Indexes for Archives of Natural History 49 (2022)1
VAN DE ROEMER, Bert, PIETERS, Florence, MULDER, Hans, ETHERIDGE, Kay and VAN DELFT, Marieke (editors). Maria Sibylla Merian: changing the nature of art and science1
MILLER, Hugh. The old red sandstone; or new walks in an old field1
PIETSCH, Theodore W. and ANDERSON Jr, William D. Ichthyopedia – A biographical dictionary of ichthyologists (Lightning Rod Press, Volume 10). American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia: 2023.1
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WITTY, Dave. What the trees see: a wander through millennia of natural history in Australia. Monash University Publishing, Clayton: 2023. iv., 284 pp.; illustrated. Price AU$ 29.99 (paperback).1
MORIARTY, John J. et al. Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles. A new history, 1957–2024. SSAR, Ann Arbor, Michigan: 2024. i–xii, 296 pp.; illustrated. Price US$35 (hardback), US$21
John James Audubon’s prospectus forThe birds of America1
HUNTING, Jill. For want of wings: a bird with teeth and a dinosaur in the family1
Dating the publication of Hugh Miller’sThe testimony of the rocks(1857)0
MASON, Peter. Ulisse Aldrovandi. Naturalist and collector0
SARASOHN, Lisa T. Getting under our skin: the cultural and social history of vermin0
Samuel Holker Haslam FLS (1797–1856), gentleman naturalist0
Late eighteenth-century depictions of Peruvian primates in the Codex Martínez Compañón and the Quadro de la Historia Natural Civil y Geográfica del Reyno del Perú0
Biological models and replicas in Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto, Portugal0
GOODMAN, Jordan. Planting the world. Joseph Banks and his collectors: an adventurous history of botany0
JAMESON, Conor Mark. Finding W. H. Hudson: the writer who came to Britain to save the birds0
Jean-Baptiste Christophe Fusée-Aublet and the practice of botany in French Guiana and Paris (1762–1775)0
Alfred Newton’s second-hand histories of extinction: hearsay, gossip, misapprehension (William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 2020)0
LEONI, Simona Boscani, BAUMGARTNER, Sarah and KNITTEL, Mieke (editors). Connecting territories. Exploring people and nature, 1700–18500
Hamilton Mack Laing's specimen of a whooping crane,Grus americana0
ROSCHER, Mieke, KREBBER, André and MIZELLE, Brett (editors). Handbook of historical animal studies0
ASHBY, Jack. Platypus matters: the extraordinary story of Australian mammals; HOLMES, Branden and LINNARD, Gareth (editors). Thylacine: the history, ecology and loss of the Tasmanian tiger0
The Arabic and Persian annotations to Vienna, Osterrechische National Bibliothek. Cod. Med. Gr. 10
BAUER, Aaron M. and LAVILLA, Esteban O. J. G. Schneider’s Historiae amphibiorum: herpetology at the dawn of the nineteenth century0
BOSE, Shibani. Mega mammals in ancient India: rhinos, tigers and elephants0
LACK, Hans Walter, COMPTON, James A. and CALLMANDER, Martin W. The Redouté brothers: masters of scientific illustration in Paris. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève & Muséum natio0
The history of the name ‘lagopus’ used in avian nomenclature0
The illustrated natural history lectures of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins given in Britain, 1850s–1880s0
FULLER, Errol and FINCH, Craig. Sarah Stone’s unseen worlds: a rare collection of 18th century ornithological watercolours. Impress-Publishing, Oxford: 2023. 128pp.; illustrated. Price £45 (har0
PARKER, Eleanor. Winters in the world; a journey through the Anglo-Saxon year; FLIGHT, Tim. Basilisks and Beowulf; monsters in the Anglo-Saxon world0
BORAN, Elizabethanne, NELSON, E. Charles and LAWLOR, Emer (editors). Botany and gardens in early modern Ireland0
McDOWELL, Marta (editor). A curious herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell’s pioneering masterpiece of botanical art0
Two unpublished Darwin manuscripts in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge: insights into Charles Darwin’s Beagle fossil collecting and its significance during and after the voyage0
When did Alexander Philipp Maximilian, Prinz zu Wied-Neuwied, first describe Felis macroura? (Archives of Natural History 49 (2): 412–415)0
HICKMAN, Clare. The doctor’s garden. Medicine, science and horticulture in Britain.0
The Heriot of Ramornie annotated copy of Flora Glottiana: an early nineteenth-century Flora of Fife0
Henry Gustave Hiller (1864–1946): British stained glass artist, naturalist and illustrator0
DRIVER, Felix, NESBITT, Mark and CORNISH, Caroline (editors). Mobile museums, collections in circulation0
George Perry (c.1718–1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist0
ENGL, Elisabeth. Die medizinisch-naturkundliche Bibliothek des Nürnberger Arztes Christoph Jacob Trew0
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HODKINSON, Ian D. Roots and branches: botanical exploration of the Lake District 1775–1900. Bookcase, Carlisle: 2024. 171pp.; illustrated. Price £18 (paperback). ISBN 97819121816740
Indexes for Archives of Natural History 50 (2023)0
HARRIS, Stephen J. Roots to seeds. 400 years of Oxford botany0
Seeing birds: Dr Casey Wood's (1856–1942) second career0
Gazelles (Gazellaspp.) depicted in frescoes and sculpture from Herculaneum and Pompeii0
HART, Andrea and DATTA, Ann. Birds of the world. The art of Elizabeth Gould. Prestel Verlag, Munich, London & New York: 2023. 247 pp.; illustrated. Price £55 (hardback). ISBN 9783791379876.0
António da Costa Paiva (Barão de Castelo de Paiva) (1806–1879): his malacological collection from Madeira in Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal0
‘Biological jewels’: the glass models of Herman Oscar Mueller and the role of the specialist museum glassblower (William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 2022)0
ŞENGÖR, A. M. Celâl. Revising the revisions: James Hutton’s reputation among geologists in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries0
Charles Plumier’s anatomical drawings and description of the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus (1694–1697)0
An annotated bibliography of the printed works of James Petiver (c.1663–1718)0
The first painting of the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) in Europe? Natural history and artistic patronage in early nineteenth-century India0
Alexander Charles Stephen (1893–1966): contributions on Scottish benthic ecology, systematics and biological recording0
Indexes for Archives of Natural History 51 (2024)0
“Horniman Museum and Library Publications” series: zoology and anthropology (1904–1977)0
NAVAKAS, Michele Currie. Coral lives: literature, labor, and the making of America0
David Elliston Allen FLS (17 January 1932–14 July 2023)0
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Jacob Theodor Klein's ‘De piscium auditu’ (1740): an early treatise on hearing in fishes, with a description of the form, function and utility of fish otoliths0
T. H. Huxley’s turbulent apprenticeship years: John Charles Cooke and the John Salt scandal0
Ethnobotany and Irish nationalism: an early contribution by Dr Michael F. Moloney (Micheál P. Ó Máoldhomhnaigh) of Dungarvan0
John James Audubon (1785–1851) carte de visite (c.1860)0
NIXON, Sean. Passions for birds. Science, sentiment, and sport0
FABRI, Régine. Le vasculum ou boîte d’herborisation. Marqueur emblématique du botaniste du XIXe siècle, objet désuet devenu vintage0
Charles Plumier’s descriptions and drawings of Antillean birds (1687–1697)0
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A history of plant collecting (1927–1986) at Chishimba Falls, Kasama District, Zambia0
Jane Dye (1886–1976), pioneering birdwatcher in Sichuan, China, 1916–19490
Ernest Galpin's pioneering botanical expedition to the Eastern Cape Drakensberg, southern Africa, 19040
A silent herbarium? Joseph de Jussieu’s botanical collections from South America (1735–1770)0
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MEARNS, Barbara and MEARNS, Richard. Biographies for birdwatchers: the lives of those commemorated in Western Palearctic bird names0
Indexes for Archives of Natural History 48 (2021)0
Evidence that Temminck described Felis aurata in 1825, not 18270
A history of the discovery and study of Plecoptera (stoneflies) in Britain and Ireland (1769–1970s)0
René-Edouard Claparède (1832–1871), Genevan naturalist and early adopter of Darwin's theory of evolution0
A variant issue of Mark Catesby’s Natural history of Carolina (volume 1, issued 1729–1732) given to John Bartram0
Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) and his correspondence networks: botanical exchanges from Madeira0
Three botanical watercolours by Richard Bradley (c.1688–1732) including of coffee and cinnamon0
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RUSSELL, Douglas G. D. Interesting bird nests & eggs. Natural History Museum, London: 2024. 256 pp.; illustrated. Price £12.99 (hardback). ISBN 97805650955290
BEINART, William and DUBOW, Saul. The scientific imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the present0
Notes on the birds collected by Giovanni Emilio Cerruti during his journey to New Guinea (1869–1870)0
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HOLMES, John. Temple of science0
A ‘sea monster’ depicted in the 1585 map of Iceland may exemplify spy-hopping behaviour in cetaceans0
A bonnacon’s defensive tactics in medieval natural history0
One book, three Fellows of the Royal Society: biography of a copy of James Croll’s Climate and time in their geological relations (1875)0
BASHFORD, Alison. An intimate history of evolution: the story of the Huxley family0
RIEDL-DORN, Christa. Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl: an Austrian naturalist in Brazil. Editora Index: Kapa Editorial, Rio de Janeiro: 2023. 249 pp.; illustrated. Price €20. ISBN 97865883060240
On the date of Hyale perieri (Archives of Natural History 48 (1): 179–187)0
Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747) as a colourer0
Bibliographical notes on The natural history of Tutbury (1863)0
Misidentification of authors of taxonomic works: the case of Ferdinand von Mueller (1825–1896)0
SIMONS, John, Goldfish in the parlour: the Victorian craze for marine life. Sydney University Press, Sydney: 2023. 296 pp.; illustrated. Price £19 (paperback). ISBN 9781743328729.0
An American botanist on the Nile: uncovering Asa Gray's plant specimens from his trip to North Africa, 1868–18690
GEORGE, Alex. S. and MOORE, David T. (editors). Peter Good. Kew's gardener with Matthew Flinders on HMS Investigator, 1801–1803 LESCHENAULT, Théodore. The French collector. Journal and lette0
GEORGE, Alex S. (editor). The Australian Botanical Liaison Officer scheme at Kew, 1937–2009. Four Gables Press, Kardinya, Western Australia: 2023. x, 352 pp.; illustrated. Price AU$ 90 (paperba0
McBURNEY, Henrietta. Illuminating natural history: the art and science of Mark Catesby0
HORSMAN, Frank. Who discovered the “Teesdale rarities”?0
Dwarf emus from Baudin's voyage (1800–1804): an overlooked engraving by Nicolas Huet (1770–1830)0
Nikolaas Tinbergen’s children’s bookKleew(1947): the story of a herring gull0
Understanding the bestiary of the frescoes in the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi, Italy as an ante litteram zoological atlas0
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AYER, Jacques, HAYMANN, Emmanuel, VALLOTTON, Laurent, WAGNEUR, Phillipe and OULEVEY, Juliette. Muséum Genève: deux cent ans d’histoire naturelle0
LAIRD, Mark. The domain of flowers: botanical art and global plant relations. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London: 2024. xx, pp. 253; illustrated. Price £35 (hardback). ISBN 90
Mammals and birds collected near Mount Kinabalu, Borneo, 1887–1888, now in World Museum, National Museums Liverpool0
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The Münch-Bellinghausen collection of botanical illustrations in the Haus der Natur, Salzburg0
Sixth International Congress of Entomology, Madrid (1935): politics and science0
ELPHICK, Jonathan. Ferdinand Bauer’s remarkable birds. Bodleian Library Publishing, Oxford: 2024. 240 pp.; illustrated. Price £50 (hardback). ISBN 9781851246250.0
Dates of purchase of Mark Catesby’s Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands, parts 1–9 (1729–1739), by Spencer Compton, Lord Wilmington (c.1674–1743)0
THIERS, Barbara M. Herbarium: the quest to preserve and classify the world’s plants0
New identifications of natural history images on the “Bodleian Plate”, an early eighteenth-century engraved copperplate0
GOCHBERG, Reed. Useful objects: museums, science, and literature in nineteenth-century America0
Edward Morgan (c.1619–c.1689) and his hortus siccus: an early record of Welsh plants0
Nature on the airwaves: natural history and the BBC in interwar Britain, 1922–1939 (William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 2021)0
An account of the natural history and exploitation of the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) in ‘Histoire des pesches’, an illustrated eighteenth-century manuscript0
Solomon Col Adol (1909–1971), Game Ranger and animal collector in Bor, South Sudan0
KEOGH, Luke. The Wardian case: how a simple box moved plants and changed the world0
The colouring of John Curtis’sBritish entomology(1834–1839): Joseph Standish and “the paragon of perfection”0
How collections and reputation were built out of Tasmanian violence: thylacines (Thylacinus cynocephalus) and Aboriginal remains from Morton Allport (1830–1878)0
MENZIES, Nicholas K. Ordering the myriad things: from traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China0
Mark Catesby, Cromwell Mortimer and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1730–1748): summarizing Catesby's The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands0
CONVERY, Ian, DAVIS, Peter, LLOYD, Karen, NEVIN, Owen T. and VAN MAANEN, Erwin (editors). The wolf: culture, nature, heritage. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge: 2023. xxiii, 407 pp; illustrated. P0
E. Charles Nelson FLS, VMM (15 September 1951–20 May 2024)0
SAX, Boria. Avian illuminations: a cultural history of birds0
SALVADOR, Andreia. Interesting shells0
FARMER, Jared. Elderflora. A modern history of ancient trees0
MOSS, Stephen. Ten birds that changed the world0
WALE, Matthew. Making entomologists, how periodicals shaped scientific communities in nineteenth-century Britain0
ETHERIDGE, Kay and RITTERSON, Michael (translator). The flowering of ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian’s caterpillar book0
Natural history and the Raj: popular wildlife literature for readers in Britain and the British Empire in India (1858–1947)0
The ornithology of Agnes Block (1629–1704): Dutch naturalist, artist, collector and patron0
John Kay’s The craft in danger (1817): graphic satire and natural history in nineteenth-century Edinburgh0
“Bharat Singh’s Stuffed Otter”: discovery in 1818 of Ailurus fulgens, the Himalayan red panda0
TOWNER, Elizabeth. Margaret Rebecca Dickinson: a botanical artist of the Border Counties0
APESTEGUIA, Sebastián, ALVAREZ, Stella Maris and GIACCHINO, Adrián (editors). Bonaparte, el amo de los dinosaurios0
ANDREI, Mary Anne. Nature’s mirror: how taxidermists shaped America’s natural history museums and saved endangered species0
SHARPE, Tom. The fossil woman: a life of Mary Anning0
Three botanical watercolours by Richard Bradley (c.1688–1732) including of coffee and cinnamon (Archives of Natural History 49 (2): 341–346)0
The forgotten history of Oreortyx pictus (mountain quail), discovered by the Lewis and Clark expedition, 18060
Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski and Wiktor Ignacy Godlewski: ground-breaking studies of Siberian natural history in the nineteenth century0
The extinct sea mink, Neogale macrodon: a putative specimen in the New Brunswick Museum, Canada, confirmed as American mink, Neogale vison0
McCRACKEN, Donal P. Napoleon's garden island. Lost and old gardens of St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean0
George Montagu (1753–1815): travels in Scotland and his Scottish bird specimens0
ATHENS, Elizabeth A. William Bartram's visual wonders: the drawings of an American naturalist. Pittsburgh University Press, Pittsburgh: 2024. xv, 250 pp.; illustrated. Price $40 (hardback). ISB0
Of people and plants in West Chester, Pennsylvania: the localisms of William Darlington's Florula Cestrica (1826)0
Arthur Cain and ecological genetics in the Oxford Zoology Department0
Anabas testudineus(Bloch, 1792), climbing perch (Anabantidae), and its discovery in India0
JONES HARVEY, Eleanor. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: art nature and culture0
The dispersal of Vivian Vaughan Davies Hewitts collection of great auk (Pinguinus impennis) eggs0
FINNEGAN, Diarmid A. The voice of science: British scientists of the lecture circuit in Gilded Age America0
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BALL, Caroline. A splendour of succulents and cacti0
LAWRENCE, Sandra. Miss Willmott's ghosts. The extraordinary life and gardens of a forgotten genius0
CLARKE, Philip A. Aboriginal peoples and birds in Australia: historical and cultural relationships0
ROOS, Anna Marie and KELLER, Vera (editors). Collective wisdom: collecting in the early modern academy, Techne 10. Brepols, Turnhout: 2022. 325 pp.; illustrated. Price €85 (hardback); €85 (e-bo0
COHEN, Alan, HAMMEL, Tanja and RINDLISBACHER, Jasmin (editors). Mary Elizabeth Barber. Growing wild. The correspondence of a pioneering woman naturalist from the Cape0
FLANNERY, Maura C. In the herbarium: the hidden world of collecting and preserving plants0
WINTERBOTTOM, Anna, DICKENSON, Victoria, CARTWRIGHT, Ben and WILLIAMS, Lauren (editors). Women, environment, and networks of Empire. Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in Madras. McGill-Queens 0
“Der fluglose Alk”: Johann Friedrich Naumann’s 1844 account of Pinguinus impennis (great auk)0
Mounted specimen of Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis) in Tūhura Otago Museum: X-ray imaging and additional historical information0
Peter Artedi's early observations of the spotted hyena and other exotic animals during a visit to London (1734–1735)0
Emily Lawless and Charles Darwin: an Irish mystery (Archives of Natural History 43: 148–151)0
HARRIS, Stephen A. Catesby's Natural History. Bodleian Library Publishing, Oxford: 2024, 304 pp.; illustrated. Price £50 (hardback). ISBN 97818512463970
New identifications of natural history images on the “Bodleian Plate”, an early eighteenth-century engraved copperplate (Archives of Natural History 50 (1): 74–84)0
A caracal on Noah’s altar?0
SATO, Ikio. Monograph of Japanese tailed amphibians0
The unusual printing and publishing arrangements of Hugh Miller (1802–1856)0
John Claudius Loudon (1782–1843): corrected date of birth0
HONEGGER, Thomas. Introducing the medieval dragon. SMITHIES, Kathryn L. Introducing the medieval ass0
KENNEDY, Victor S. Shifting baselines in the Chesapeake Bay: an environmental history0
Discovery of a miniature portrait of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (New York, 1818)0
The great synthesis: Willdenow’s Species plantarum (1797–1810) and his herbarium0
ROBERTS, Brynley F. Edward Lhwyd c.1660–1709, naturalist, antiquary, philologist0
FALLON, Richard. Reimagining dinosaurs in late Victorian and Edwardian literature. How the ‘terrible lizard’ became a transatlantic cultural icon0
Hortus siccus (1595) of Johann Brehe of Überlingen from the Broumov Benedictine monastery, Czech Republic, re-discovered0
MARTIN, Simon. Drawn to nature: Gilbert White and the artists0
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†DARBY, Michael. British coleopterists. Biographies, collections, sources. Malthouse Books, Salisbury: 2022. 505 pp.; illustrated. Price £24 (hardback). Distributed by Pemberley Books, 18 Bathu0
GOSS, Andrew (editor). The Routledge handbook of science and empire0
SHTEIR, Ann. Flora's fieldworkers: women, men, and plants in nineteenth-century Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal: 2022. 488 pp.; illustrated. Price CAD$70 (hardback). ISBN 97800
William Richard Fisher (1824–1888) and the controversy about Paget’s pochard (Aythya ferina × nyroca)0
The completion of The correspondence of Charles Darwin (1985–2023)0
Fauna and flora listed in John Hooker’s manuscript ‘Synopsis chorographical of Devonshire’ (1599)0
Zoffany’s ‘monkey’ and other early depictions of the western hoolock gibbon0
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The green mole,Astromycter prasinatusT. M. Harris, 1825 (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Talpidae): an origin story0
PÁLSSON, Gísli. The last of its kind; the search for the great auk and the discovery of extinction. Princeton University Press, Princeton: 2024. 328 pp.; illustrated. Price US$ 27.95, £22 (hard0
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