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BERWICK, Leonie and CHARMANTIER, Isabelle (editors). L: 50 objects, stories and discoveries from the Linnean Society of London Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 E. C. Nelson
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AYER, Jacques, HAYMANN, Emmanuel, VALLOTTON, Laurent, WAGNEUR, Phillipe and OULEVEY, Juliette. Muséum Genève: deux cent ans d’histoire naturelle Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 G. Douglas
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ANDREI, Mary Anne. Nature’s mirror: how taxidermists shaped America’s natural history museums and saved endangered species Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 E. Larsson
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William Elias Helman Pidsley (1867–1905) and his collection of birds Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 A. Mignan
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T. H. Huxley’s turbulent apprenticeship years: John Charles Cooke and the John Salt scandal Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 A. Desmond,A. Darwin
Thomas Henry Huxley’s early medical apprenticeships (between 1838 and 1842) were largely a family affair. They were overseen by one brother-in-law, John Charles Cooke, in Coventry, and another brother-in-law, John Godwin Salt, in London. With both Cooke and Salt teaching at Sydenham College, a private medical school in London, young Huxley too attended this cheap anatomy school in its final year (1841–1842)
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CARINE, Mark (editor). The collectors. Creating Hans Sloane's extraordinary herbarium Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 E. C. Nelson
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Sixth International Congress of Entomology, Madrid (1935): politics and science Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 C. Martín Albaladejo,F. Carmona Vivar
Using the Sixth International Congress of Entomology (Madrid, 1935) as an example, we present a representative case of science as a social construct and its importance to the history of the winning side of a war to construct a memory that supports its own version of events. The Congress was held prior to the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939); however, the proceedings were not published until 1940. An examination
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Alfred Newton’s second-hand histories of extinction: hearsay, gossip, misapprehension (William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 2020) Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 A. Urry
The study of extinction was rooted in Victorian naturalists’ practices of observation and collection, but presented a challenge to the discipline’s increasing emphasis on empiricism and precision. This paper traces the role of witness testimony and hearsay accounts in early studies of extinction, as preserved in the notebooks of Cambridge zoology professor, Alfred Newton. Beginning in 1850s, Newton
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ENGL, Elisabeth. Die medizinisch-naturkundliche Bibliothek des Nürnberger Arztes Christoph Jacob Trew Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 H. Reichenbach
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SORENSEN, W. Conner, SMITH, Edward H., SMITH, Janet R. and WEBER, Donald C. Charles Valentine Riley: founder of modern entomology Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 J. Goodman
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John K’Eogh’s Zoologia medicinalis Hibernica (1739) and the duplicitous “Bernard Mandeville” re-issue (1744) Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 E. C. Nelson
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CAREY, Brycchan, GREENFIELD, Sayre and MILNE, Anne. Birds in eighteenth-century literature: reason, emotion, and ornithology 1700–1840 Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 T. R. Birkhead
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Dating the publication of Hugh Miller’s The testimony of the rocks (1857) Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 M. A. Taylor,R. O’Connor,L. K. Overstreet
Assessing the precise publication dates of nineteenth-century books is difficult. Common problems include inadequate, inaccurate and confusing title-page information, and misleading advertisements. It is better to use multiple lines of evidence rather than a single source. The first Scottish and English edition of The testimony of the rocks, by Hugh Miller (1802–1856), is shown to have been published
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PÄSSLER, Ulrich (editor). Alexander von Humboldt. Geographie der Pflanzen. Unveröffentlichte Schriften aus dem Nachlass Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 K. Nickelsen
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JONES HARVEY, Eleanor. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: art nature and culture Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 C. H. Smith
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HORSMAN, Frank. Who discovered the “Teesdale rarities”? Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 P. Davis
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GOODMAN, Jordan. Planting the world. Joseph Banks and his collectors: an adventurous history of botany Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 A. M. Lucas
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Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) and his correspondence networks: botanical exchanges from Madeira Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 S. Mesquita,M. Menezes De Sequeira,C. Castel-Branco
The growth of scientific knowledge in the natural sciences in the nineteenth century to a large extent depended on networking and communication between naturalists. Our case-study illustrates such forms of scientific communication using a social network analysis (SNA) approach for studying the relationships of the Reverend Richard Thomas Lowe, an English naturalist who lived in Madeira from 1826 to
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An annotated bibliography of the printed works of James Petiver (c.1663–1718) Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 C. E. Jarvis
The works of James Petiver have a complicated publishing history. Apart from his more substantial publications, Musei Petiveriani (1695–1703) and Gazophylacii naturæ et artis (1702–1711), which were chiefly based on specimens in his collection and were issued in multiple parts, Petiver also published nearly thirty shorter articles and tracts, some of them merely hand-bills. Many of these publications
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Philip Henry Gosse and the Microscopical Society of London, with additions to Gosse’s bibliography Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 R. B. Williams
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The green mole, Astromycter prasinatus T. M. Harris, 1825 (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Talpidae): an origin story Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 N. Woodman
Thaddeus William Harris described the green mole of Maine, Condylura prasinata (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Talpidae), in the July 1825 issue of the Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts, and this was considered the original description of the species throughout most of the nineteenth century. In the early twentieth century, taxonomists began instead to cite an earlier notice in the June 1825 issue
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Hamilton Mack Laing's specimen of a whooping crane, Grus americana Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 S. G. Sealy
Hamilton Mack Laing, a hunter-naturalist, taught in rural schools in southwestern Manitoba, Canada, from 1901 to 1911. He collected a whooping crane ( Grus americana) near Whitewater Lake in 1905, which he later regretted when the species's decline and rarity were becoming recognized. Although suggested otherwise, there is no evidence that Laing collected more than one whooping crane.
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BOSE, Shibani. Mega mammals in ancient India: rhinos, tigers and elephants Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 K. Rookmaaker
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The unusual printing and publishing arrangements of Hugh Miller (1802–1856) Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 M. A. Taylor
John Johnstone was an Edinburgh printer and publisher, from 1849 in partnership with Robert Hunter. In 1839, Johnstone and the printer Robert Fairly established a separate firm, Johnstone & Fairly, to publish the Witness, a newspaper edited by the geologist Hugh Miller. The firm became Miller & Fairly in 1844 when Miller bought out Johnstone's share. The editorial office was in the High Street. The
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ORR, Clarissa Campbell. Mrs Delany: a life Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 E. C. Nelson
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John James Audubon’s prospectus for The birds of America Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 P. B. Logan,M. A. Sidor
The prospectus for The birds of America, which was used by John James Audubon as a marketing tool while canvassing for potential subscribers, went through a series of editions between 1827 and 1838. From a single folded sheet describing the general scope of the work and its price, the prospectus grew to 16 pages that incorporated a separate title-page, the names of subscribers, favourable reviews,
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The first painting of the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) in Europe? Natural history and artistic patronage in early nineteenth-century India Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 D. A. Lowther
Throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, British East India Company officials, based in the Indian subcontinent, amassed huge collections of natural history images. One of the largest collections, consisting of many thousands of individual paintings commissioned mainly from Indian artists between 1790 and 1823, was formed by Major-General Thomas Hardwicke. Some of these later
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On the date of Hyale perieri (Archives of Natural History 48 (1): 179–187) Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 P. G. Moore
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Zoological specimens from the Franco-Tuscan expedition to Egypt (1828–1829) in Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Pisa Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 S. Farina,L. Vanni
This paper describes the zoological specimens collected by Giuseppe Raddi during the Franco-Tuscan expedition to Egypt (1828–1829) held in the collection of the Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Pisa. Twenty-two specimens exist, including four amphibians preserved in alcohol, and 18 taxidermy specimens (16 birds, 2 mammals). Among these is a specimen of the taxonomically controversial Canis
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Stanisław Batys Gorski’s botanical research in the Białowieża Primeval Forest during the 1820s Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 A. Ričkienė,P. Daszkiewicz,A. Fedotova,T. Samojlik
The first scientific description of the flora of the Białowieża Primeval Forest (Puszcza Białowieska) was published in 1829 in Stanisław Batys Gorski’s paper “O roślinach żubrom upodobanych, jakoteż innych w puszczy Białowiezkiey [About preferred plants of the European bison and other plants from the Białowieża Primeval Forest]”. This publication comprised the first critical evaluation of the plant
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SHARPE, Tom. The fossil woman: a life of Mary Anning Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 C. Burek
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Mark Catesby's copy of John Lawson's The history of Carolina (London 1714) Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 E. Charles Nelson,Alison A. Petretti
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Hermann Schlegel's first attempt (1847) to catalogue the birds in the former collection of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Justin J. F. J. Jansen
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Clarifying the biographical etymologies of the species epithets of Bathyporeia guilliamsoniana and Hyale perieri (Crustacea: Amphipoda) Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 P. G. Moore
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John James Audubon's overlooked “Great Work”: his Ornithological biography Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Peter B. Logan,Martin A. Sidor
John James Audubon's five-volume Ornithological biography (1831–1839), published as the textual companion to The birds of America (1827–1838), remains a rich source of information about North America's avifauna. Issued separately from the prints for both practical and economic reasons, this classic but often forgotten work contained individual biographical accounts of each species shown in the illustrations
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Charles Livesey Walton (1881–1953): from marine to veterinary to agricultural zoology Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 P. G. Moore,R. B. Williams
Charles Livesey Walton (1881–1953) was born on the Isle of Man, but moved in childhood via Yorkshire to the south coast of Pembrokeshire (Wales). Later, having become a man of private means, he relocated to Devon. He was associated with the Marine Biological Laboratory of the United Kingdom in Plymouth from 1907 until 1912, where he developed expertise on sea anemones. His first publication was on
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Marcgrave's red-tailed monkey: the earliest European depiction of a titi monkey Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Guilherme S. T. Garbino,Carla Cristina de Aquino,Raone Beltrão-mendes
Among the approximately 40 species of mammals described in Historia naturalis Brasiliae by Willem Piso and Georg Marcgrave, the identity of the monkey “cagui major” has been one of the most controversial. Authors have identified Marcgrave's “cagui major” as a tamarin, a saki monkey, a squirrel monkey, a titi monkey and even as an Old-World monkey. Based on a watercolour, probably related to the original
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LÜTTGER, Felix. Auf den Spuren des Wals – Geographien des Lebens im 19. Jahrhundert Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Susanne Salinger
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HEARD, Stephen B. Charles Darwin's barnacle and David Bowie's spider; how scientific names celebrate adventurers, heroes, and even a few scoundrels Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Johannes (John) E. Riutta
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HAIKAL, Mustafa. Master Pongo: a gorilla conquers Europe Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Harro Strehlow
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PEARSON, David. Provenance research in book history. A handbook Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 E. Charles Nelson
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Two unpublished photographic portraits of the American conchologist William Harper Pease (1824–1871) Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Theodore W. Pietsch
A likeness of William Harper Pease, best known for his conchological exploration of the Hawaiian Islands, has remained unknown since his untimely death in 1871 at the age of 47. Recently, however, two photographic portraits of Pease have been identified in the archives of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu. The best of the two is a carte-de-visite of the typical size, showing Pease as a man
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Annual plants, pigeons and flies: first signs of quantitative ecological thinking in Linnaeus's works Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 János Podani,Lajos Rózsa,András Szilágyi
Thinking about the dynamics of populations of plants and animals goes back to Linnaeus. He used at least three examples to show what happens when the population of a species grows without limitations and to illustrate the potential reproductive capacity of organisms. We examined the mathematical precision of calculations Linnaeus used in presenting these examples and reviewed the assumptions under
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AELIANUS, Claudius. Vom Wesen der Tiere. Bücher I–VII AILIANOS. Tierleben. Griechisch-deutsch Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Karl Enenkel
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John Leigh, Lydia Becker and their shared botanical interests Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Janis Antonovics,Mary Gibby,Michael E. Hood
This article examines the relationship between John Leigh (1812–1888) and Lydia Becker (1827–1890). Leigh was a prominent figure in the scientific circles of Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and the city's Medical Officer for Health. Becker was a botanist and Leigh's second cousin. She corresponded with Charles Darwin and became a pioneer in the women's suffrage movement. Previous studies have
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Corrosive sublimate and its introduction as an insecticide for preserving natural history specimens in the eighteenth century Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Stanislav Strekopytov
By the mid-eighteenth century, the need to protect zoological and botanical collections from attacks of insects became pressing for the community of naturalists. Living ornamental and economically important plants and their seeds also needed to be protected from insects when transported by sail. John Ellis ( c.1710–1776), one of the pioneers of plant transportation, was instrumental in disseminating
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“On Deposit”: animal acquisition at the Zoological Society of London, 1870–1910 (Patron's review) Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Eleanor Larsson
When the zoological gardens in Regent's Park opened to the public in 1847, they immediately became very popular, providing a source of both entertainment and instruction for visitors and a vital stream of revenue for the Zoological Society of London. However, the ongoing popularity of the gardens was endangered by the consistently high mortality rates which afflicted the Society's animals throughout
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PARRY, James and GREENWOOD, Jeremy. Emma Turner: a life looking at birds Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Pat Monaghan
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NERI, Janice, NUMMEDAL, Tara and CALHOUN, John V. John Abbot and William Swainson: art, science, and commerce in nineteenth-century natural history illustration Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Beth Fowkes Tobin
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MUSGRAVE, Toby. The multifarious Mr Banks. From Botany Bay to Kew, the natural historian who shaped the world Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Gina Douglas
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Three century-old tourist souvenirs from the Zambezi River Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Philip H. Oswald
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COULTON, Richard and JARVIS, Charles E. (editors). Remembering James Petiver Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 E. Geoffrey Hancock
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CHICO, Tita. The experimental imagination: literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Elizabeth L. Swann
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The courtship dance of a lesser bird of paradise figured in J. E. Gray's Illustrations of Indian zoology (1830–1835) Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Ann Datta
Thomas Hardwicke's acquisition of drawings of the lesser bird of paradise ( Paradisaea minor) and the subsequent publication of his painting of the male bird performing its elaborate courtship ritual in J. E. Gray's Illustrations of Indian zoology are described.
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Geneva, natural history and the art of observing Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Steffen Ducheyne
According to the naturalist Charles Bonnet (1720–1793), an “art of observing” was sorely needed to stimulate further progress in natural history. Although he never published on the subject, Bonnet proposed a prize competition on the “art of observing” to Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (the Dutch Society of Sciences) in Haarlem of which he was a member. Jean Senebier, a pastor and librarian
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MASON, Ian J. and PFITZNER, Gilbert H. Passions in ornithology: a century of Australian egg collectors Archives of Natural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Tim R. Birkhead