Archives of Natural History

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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PECK, Robert McCracken. The natural history of Edward Lear4
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
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 (h2
BAINBRIDGE, David. Palaeontology: an illustrated history2
When did Alexander Philipp Maximilian, Prinz zu Wied-Neuwied, first describe Felis macroura?2
BIRKHEAD, Tim. Birds and us: a 12,000-year history, from cave art to conservation2
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 2
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
KISLING, Vernon N. (editor). Zoo and aquarium history: ancient animal collections to conservation centers2
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 botanist2
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
Establishing the Darwinian legacy: editorial and scientific work in the archive of Lady Nora Barlow1
SMITH, Paul and EGMOND, Florike (editors). Ichthyology in context (1500–1800). Brill, Leiden: 2023. 726pp.; illustrated. Price €199 (hardback). ISBN 9789004681170.1
Alfonso Palanza (1851–1899): a late nineteenth-century Italian botanist and his herbaria1
JACKSON, Christine E. A newsworthy naturalist: the life of William Yarrell1
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$21
BUTLER, Patricia. Drawn from nature. The flowering of Irish botanical art1
The 1940 monograph that has preserved natural history records of the lost raised bog of Šepeta, Lithuania1
Was Gilbert White the first to use an ‘X’ as a kiss?1
Community and continuity: non-hierarchical recording of Cambridgeshire's plants and fungi, 1919–19521
VANE-WRIGHT, Richard I. (Introduction) in partnership with the OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Iconotypes. A compendium of butterflies and moths. Jones’s Icones complete1
VAN DE ROEMER, Bert, PIETERS, Florence, MULDER, Hans, ETHERIDGE, Kay and VAN DELFT, Marieke (editors). Maria Sibylla Merian: changing the nature of art and science1
SAGAL, Anna K. Botanical entanglements: women, natural science, and the arts in eighteenth-century England1
Indexes for Archives of Natural History 49 (2022)1
Natural history, ethnography and private collecting: the legacy of Frederic William Lucas (1842–1932)1
WITTY, Dave. What the trees see: a wander through millennia of natural history in Australia. Monash University Publishing, Clayton: 2023. iv., 284 pp.; illustrated. Price AU$ 29.99 (paperback).1
DAVIS, Josh L. A little gay natural history1
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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
Dating the crustacean text and plates by Henri Milne Edwards and Pierre Hippolyte Lucas in Alcide d’Orbigny’s Voyage l’Amérique dans méridionale (1835–181
SCHLOSSMAN, Marc. Extinction: our fragile relationship with life on Earth1
MANIAS, Chris. The age of mammals: nature, development, & paleontology in the long nineteenth century1
ROTHFELS, Nigel. Elephant trails: a history of animals and cultures1
COWIE, Helen L. Victims of fashion: animal commodities in Victorian Britain1
Evidence for a remarkable survival of invertebrates from the teaching collection of William MacGillivray (1796–1852), Marischal College, Aberdeen1
LUBRICH, Oliver and NEHRLICH, Thomas (editors). Alexander von Humboldt: writings in English1
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
Museum Boltenianum … pars prima continens animalia in spiritu vini adservata … (c.1797, Hamburg): bibliographic and nomenclatural notes1
Wooden replicas of great auk eggs created (c.1922) by Stephen James Goodall (1825–1896)1
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
DOBRASZCZYK, Paul. Animal architecture: beasts, building and us. Reaktion Books, London. 268 pp.; illustrated. Price £25 (hardback). ISBN 9781789146929.1
BIRKHEAD, Tim. The great auk: its extraordinary life, hideous death and mysterious afterlife1
Indexes for Archives of Natural History 52 (2025)1
IRMSCHER, Christoph and KING, Richard J. (editors). Audubon at sea: the coastal & transatlantic adventures of John James Audubon1
Wooden barrels for transporting and preserving natural history specimens in the eighteenth century1
GASSÓ MIRACLE, Maria Eulàlia. Coenraad Jacob Temminck and the emergence of systematics (1800–1850)1
Mo Koundje (“Mok”): the life of a western lowland gorilla (c.1929–1938)1
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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
DAVIDSON, Nick. The greywacke: how a priest, a soldier and a school teacher uncovered 300 million years of history1
BROBERG, Gunnar. The man who organized nature: the life of Linnaeus1
MILLER, Hugh. The old red sandstone; or new walks in an old field1
Giant tortoises collected from Charles Island (Isla Floreana), Galápagos, during the voyage of USS Potomac, 1831–18341
António da Costa Paiva (Barão de Castelo de Paiva) (1806–1879): his malacological collection from Madeira in Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal0
The dispersal of Vivian Vaughan Davies Hewitts collection of great auk (Pinguinus impennis) eggs0
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
ELPHICK, Jonathan. Ferdinand Bauer’s remarkable birds. Bodleian Library Publishing, Oxford: 2024. 240 pp.; illustrated. Price £50 (hardback). ISBN 9781851246250.0
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
Emily Lawless and Charles Darwin: an Irish mystery (Archives of Natural History 43: 148–151)0
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A caracal on Noah’s altar?0
René-Edouard Claparède (1832–1871), Genevan naturalist and early adopter of Darwin's theory of evolution0
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
Peter Artedi's early observations of the spotted hyena and other exotic animals during a visit to London (1734–1735)0
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LAWRENCE, Sandra. Miss Willmott's ghosts. The extraordinary life and gardens of a forgotten genius0
Biography and bibliography of the Italian malacologist Laura Gambetta (b.1901)0
John James Audubon (1785–1851) carte de visite (c.1860)0
David Elliston Allen FLS (17 January 1932–14 July 2023)0
Discovery of a miniature portrait of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (New York, 1818)0
OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (OMNH), Douglas Palmer (Introduction), Robert MacFarlane (Foreword). Strata: William Smith’s geological maps0
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Rediscovery and history of Alexander Wilson’s house in Philadelphia, the forgotten birthplace of American ornithology (1808–1814)0
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George Perry (c.1718–1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist0
The Harpur-Crewe taxidermy collection at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire: some zoological and financial insights0
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Three botanical watercolours by Richard Bradley (c.1688–1732) including of coffee and cinnamon (Archives of Natural History 49 (2): 341–346)0
Alexander Charles Stephen (1893–1966): contributions on Scottish benthic ecology, systematics and biological recording0
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
DONALD, Diana (editor). Science and visual culture in Great Britain in the long nineteenth century: Zoology0
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MURPHY, Kathleen S. Captivity's collections: science, natural history, and the transatlantic slave trade0
E. Charles Nelson FLS, VMM (15 September 1951–20 May 2024)0
Indexes for Archives of Natural History 51 (2024)0
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
FALLON, Richard. Reimagining dinosaurs in late Victorian and Edwardian literature. How the ‘terrible lizard’ became a transatlantic cultural icon0
SALVADOR, Andreia. Interesting shells0
Biological models and replicas in Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto, Portugal0
AILI, Hans and PIETSCH, Theodore W. Peter Artedi: reformer of 18th century zoology. Volume 1. Peter Artedi's life and works AILI, Hans and PIETSCH, Theod0
The great synthesis: Willdenow’s Species plantarum (1797–1810) and his herbarium0
McCRACKEN, Donal P. Napoleon's garden island. Lost and old gardens of St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean0
The journey of the giant panda ‘Grandma’ (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) from China to Britain in 1938–19390
WALE, Matthew. Making entomologists, how periodicals shaped scientific communities in nineteenth-century Britain0
Zoffany’s ‘monkey’ and other early depictions of the western hoolock gibbon0
A bonnacon’s defensive tactics in medieval natural history0
Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912): his development as an ornithologist until his departure from Etawah district, India, in 18670
Of people and plants in West Chester, Pennsylvania: the localisms of William Darlington's Florula Cestrica (1826)0
GOSS, Andrew (editor). The Routledge handbook of science and empire0
BALL, Caroline. A splendour of succulents and cacti0
FARMER, Jared. Elderflora. A modern history of ancient trees0
Early studies on Cuban weevils and their contribution to modern research in beetle evolution and island biogeography0
KNAPP, Sandra. In the name of plants. Remarkable plants and the extraordinary people behind their names0
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
SARASOHN, Lisa T. Getting under our skin: the cultural and social history of vermin0
The extinct sea mink, Neogale macrodon: a putative specimen in the New Brunswick Museum, Canada, confirmed as American mink, Neogale vison0
ŞENGÖR, A. M. Celâl. Revising the revisions: James Hutton’s reputation among geologists in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries0
The history of the name ‘lagopus’ used in avian nomenclature0
ATHENS, Elizabeth A. William Bartram's visual wonders: the drawings of an American naturalist. Pittsburgh University Press, Pittsburgh: 2024. xv, 250 pp.; illustrated. Price $40 (hardback). ISB0
ROBERTS, Brynley F. Edward Lhwyd c.1660–1709, naturalist, antiquary, philologist0
McDOWELL, Marta (editor). A curious herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell’s pioneering masterpiece of botanical art0
John Kay’s The craft in danger (1817): graphic satire and natural history in nineteenth-century Edinburgh0
Arthur Cain and ecological genetics in the Oxford Zoology Department0
MURPHY, Sheera. ‘The first national museum’: Dublin's Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century0
Indexes for Archives of Natural History 50 (2023)0
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One book, three Fellows of the Royal Society: biography of a copy of James Croll’s Climate and time in their geological relations (1875)0
DRIVER, Felix, NESBITT, Mark and CORNISH, Caroline (editors). Mobile museums, collections in circulation0
SCALES, Helen. Ocean art: From the shore to the deep0
GEORGE, Alex S. (editor). The Australian Botanical Liaison Officer scheme at Kew, 1937–2009. Four Gables Press, Kardinya, Western Australia: 2023. x, 352 pp.; illustrated. Price AU$ 90 (paperba0
KENNEDY, Victor S. Shifting baselines in the Chesapeake Bay: an environmental history0
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
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
An American botanist on the Nile: uncovering Asa Gray's plant specimens from his trip to North Africa, 1868–18690
A variant issue of Mark Catesby’s Natural history of Carolina (volume 1, issued 1729–1732) given to John Bartram0
Seeing birds: Dr Casey Wood's (1856–1942) second career0
BAUER, Aaron M. and LAVILLA, Esteban O. J. G. Schneider’s Historiae amphibiorum: herpetology at the dawn of the nineteenth century0
Edward Morgan (c.1619–c.1689) and his hortus siccus: an early record of Welsh plants0
Notes on the birds collected by Giovanni Emilio Cerruti during his journey to New Guinea (1869–1870)0
TOWNER, Elizabeth. Margaret Rebecca Dickinson: a botanical artist of the Border Counties0
SATO, Ikio. Monograph of Japanese tailed amphibians0
Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski and Wiktor Ignacy Godlewski: ground-breaking studies of Siberian natural history in the nineteenth century0
McBURNEY, Henrietta. Illuminating natural history: the art and science of Mark Catesby0
CLARKE, Philip A. Aboriginal peoples and birds in Australia: historical and cultural relationships0
GOCHBERG, Reed. Useful objects: museums, science, and literature in nineteenth-century America0
ENDERSBY, Jim. The arrival of the fittest: biology's imaginary futures, 1900–19350
William Turner on the dipper, the robin and the redstart (1544)0
Gazelles (Gazellaspp.) depicted in frescoes and sculpture from Herculaneum and Pompeii0
COWIE, Helen Louise. Animals in world history0
Fauna and flora listed in John Hooker’s manuscript ‘Synopsis chorographical of Devonshire’ (1599)0
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
John Claudius Loudon (1782–1843): corrected date of birth0
The completion of The correspondence of Charles Darwin (1985–2023)0
William Richard Fisher (1824–1888) and the controversy about Paget’s pochard (Aythya ferina × nyroca)0
Nature on the airwaves: natural history and the BBC in interwar Britain, 1922–1939 (William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 2021)0
Nikolaas Tinbergen’s children’s bookKleew(1947): the story of a herring gull0
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
New identifications of natural history images on the “Bodleian Plate”, an early eighteenth-century engraved copperplate0
Jane Dye (1886–1976), pioneering birdwatcher in Sichuan, China, 1916–19490
MOSS, Stephen. Ten birds that changed the world0
Misidentification of authors of taxonomic works: the case of Ferdinand von Mueller (1825–1896)0
†DARBY, Michael. British coleopterists. Biographies, collections, sources. Malthouse Books, Salisbury: 2022. 505 pp.; illustrated. Price £24 (hardback). Distributed by Pemberley Books, 18 Bathu0
HICKMAN, Clare. The doctor’s garden. Medicine, science and horticulture in Britain.0
Philip Henry Gosse: more additions, mainly horticultural, to his bibliography0
“Horniman Museum and Library Publications” series: zoology and anthropology (1904–1977)0
RUSSELL, Douglas G. D. Interesting bird nests & eggs. Natural History Museum, London: 2024. 256 pp.; illustrated. Price £12.99 (hardback). ISBN 97805650955290
Edward Emrys Watkin (1900–1978): marine zoologist and educator0
The value of books: Johann Philipp Breyne (1680–1764), Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), and natural history libraries0
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),0
SAX, Boria. Avian illuminations: a cultural history of birds0
MEARNS, Barbara and MEARNS, Richard. Biographies for birdwatchers: the lives of those commemorated in Western Palearctic bird names0
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Anabas testudineus(Bloch, 1792), climbing perch (Anabantidae), and its discovery in India0
Marine mammals of the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838–1842: history and taxonomy0
Three botanical watercolours by Richard Bradley (c.1688–1732) including of coffee and cinnamon0
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
Solomon Col Adol (1909–1971), Game Ranger and animal collector in Bor, South Sudan0
MORRIS, P. A. Taxidermy and the country house. MPM Publishing, Ascot: 2023. 284 pp.; illustrated. Price £29.95 (softback). ISBN 9781739716110.0
Fly-time and the archive: Francis Jenkinson’s Diptera and papers at the University of Cambridge0
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)0
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
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A ‘sea monster’ depicted in the 1585 map of Iceland may exemplify spy-hopping behaviour in cetaceans0
ROSCHER, Mieke, KREBBER, André and MIZELLE, Brett (editors). Handbook of historical animal studies0
The Heriot of Ramornie annotated copy of Flora Glottiana: an early nineteenth-century Flora of Fife0
“Der fluglose Alk”: Johann Friedrich Naumann’s 1844 account of Pinguinus impennis (great auk)0
PARKER, Eleanor. Winters in the world; a journey through the Anglo-Saxon year; FLIGHT, Tim. Basilisks and Beowulf; monsters in the Anglo-Saxon world0
FINNEGAN, Diarmid A. The voice of science: British scientists of the lecture circuit in Gilded Age America0
The illustrated natural history lectures of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins given in Britain, 1850s–1880s0
Mounted specimen of Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis) in Tūhura Otago Museum: X-ray imaging and additional historical information0
BORAN, Elizabethanne, NELSON, E. Charles and LAWLOR, Emer (editors). Botany and gardens in early modern Ireland0
Natural history and the Raj: popular wildlife literature for readers in Britain and the British Empire in India (1858–1947)0
Dwarf emus from Baudin's voyage (1800–1804): an overlooked engraving by Nicolas Huet (1770–1830)0
The ornithology of Agnes Block (1629–1704): Dutch naturalist, artist, collector and patron0
Understanding the bestiary of the frescoes in the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi, Italy as an ante litteram zoological atlas0
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
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
Henry Gustave Hiller (1864–1946): British stained glass artist, naturalist and illustrator0
ETHERIDGE, Kay and RITTERSON, Michael (translator). The flowering of ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian’s caterpillar book0
HARRIS, Stephen J. Roots to seeds. 400 years of Oxford botany0
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THIERS, Barbara M. Herbarium: the quest to preserve and classify the world’s plants0
BASHFORD, Alison. An intimate history of evolution: the story of the Huxley family0
MARTIN, Simon. Drawn to nature: Gilbert White and the artists0
George Montagu (1753–1815): travels in Scotland and his Scottish bird specimens0
The Münch-Bellinghausen collection of botanical illustrations in the Haus der Natur, Salzburg0
‘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
PARKIN, Simon. The forbidden garden of Leningrad0
NAVAKAS, Michele Currie. Coral lives: literature, labor, and the making of America0
Hortus siccus (1595) of Johann Brehe of Überlingen from the Broumov Benedictine monastery, Czech Republic, re-discovered0
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
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
Preserving the sounds of nature: the collection, digitization and dissemination of the British Library's wildlife sound recordings0
FABRI, Régine. Le vasculum ou boîte d’herborisation. Marqueur emblématique du botaniste du XIXe siècle, objet désuet devenu vintage0
The colouring of John Curtis’sBritish entomology(1834–1839): Joseph Standish and “the paragon of perfection”0
MENZIES, Nicholas K. Ordering the myriad things: from traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China0
FLANNERY, Maura C. In the herbarium: the hidden world of collecting and preserving plants0
LEONI, Simona Boscani, BAUMGARTNER, Sarah and KNITTEL, Mieke (editors). Connecting territories. Exploring people and nature, 1700–18500
Charles Plumier’s anatomical drawings and description of the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus (1694–1697)0
How collections and reputation were built out of Tasmanian violence: thylacines (Thylacinus cynocephalus) and Aboriginal remains from Morton Allport (1830–1878)0
NIXON, Sean. Passions for birds. Science, sentiment, and sport0
Charles Plumier’s descriptions and drawings of Antillean birds (1687–1697)0
An account of the natural history and exploitation of the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) in ‘Histoire des pesches’, an illustrated eighteenth-century manuscript0
APESTEGUIA, Sebastián, ALVAREZ, Stella Maris and GIACCHINO, Adrián (editors). Bonaparte, el amo de los dinosaurios0
HARRIS, Stephen A. Catesby's Natural History. Bodleian Library Publishing, Oxford: 2024, 304 pp.; illustrated. Price £50 (hardback). ISBN 97818512463970
“Bharat Singh’s Stuffed Otter”: discovery in 1818 of Ailurus fulgens, the Himalayan red panda0
HONEGGER, Thomas. Introducing the medieval dragon. SMITHIES, Kathryn L. Introducing the medieval ass0
MANDRIJ, V. E. and SIMONINI, Giulia, (editors). Insects and colors between art and natural history0
A silent herbarium? Joseph de Jussieu’s botanical collections from South America (1735–1770)0
BEINART, William and DUBOW, Saul. The scientific imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the present0
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Ernest Galpin's pioneering botanical expedition to the Eastern Cape Drakensberg, southern Africa, 19040
Jean-Baptiste Christophe Fusée-Aublet and the practice of botany in French Guiana and Paris (1762–1775)0
Early species descriptions of two native Virginian plants in the Histoire des plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l’isle Virgine, & autres lieux (Paris0
The Arabic and Persian annotations to Vienna, Osterrechische National Bibliothek. Cod. Med. Gr. 10
HUNTING, Jill. For want of wings: a bird with teeth and a dinosaur in the family0
MASON, Peter. Ulisse Aldrovandi. Naturalist and collector0
Evidence that Temminck described Felis aurata in 1825, not 18270
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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
The ‘Moving Plant of Bengal’: introduction to Western gardens, naming and early representation, poetic and graphic0
The forgotten history of Oreortyx pictus (mountain quail), discovered by the Lewis and Clark expedition, 18060
HODKINSON, Ian D. Roots and branches: botanical exploration of the Lake District 1775–1900. Bookcase, Carlisle: 2024. 171pp.; illustrated. Price £18 (paperback). ISBN 97819121816740
When did Alexander Philipp Maximilian, Prinz zu Wied-Neuwied, first describe Felis macroura? (Archives of Natural History 49 (2): 412–415)0
HOLMES, John. Temple of science0
SHEPARD, Lansing, LUCE, Don, COFFIN, Barbara and SCHAGRIN, Gwen. A natural curiosity: the story of the Bell Museum0
Peter Artedi's “Manuscriptum ichthyologicum”, a source for Albertus Seba's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio (1759)0
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A history of plant collecting (1927–1986) at Chishimba Falls, Kasama District, Zambia0
Ethnobotany and Irish nationalism: an early contribution by Dr Michael F. Moloney (Micheál P. Ó Máoldhomhnaigh) of Dungarvan0
Observations on Portuguese natural history by Leonhard Thurneysser zum Thurn (1531–1596), including the dyes derived from Kermes vermilio and Dracaena draco0
MABBERLEY, David J. Proof engravings prepared for Sir Joseph Banks from plant drawings made by Sydney Parkinson on James Cook's Endeavour voyage0
Bibliographical notes on The natural history of Tutbury (1863)0
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
Mammals and birds collected near Mount Kinabalu, Borneo, 1887–1888, now in World Museum, National Museums Liverpool0
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
Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747) as a colourer0
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