Archives of Natural History
Archives of Natural History is the journal of the Society for the History of Natural History, publishing papers on the history and bibliography of all branches of natural history.
Natural history is considered to include botany, general biology, geology, palaeontology, marine biology, mineralogy and zoology; the lives of naturalists, their publications, correspondence and collections; the institutions and societies to which they belong; and bibliographic studies of rare books, manuscripts and illustrative materials. The journal welcomes articles on all these facets of natural history, including their cultural and social aspects, across all cultures.
Archives of Natural History is published for the Society for History of Natural History by Edinburgh University Press and contains refereed, illustrated papers, short notes, book reviews and indices. Published bi-annually in April and October, print ISSN: 0260-9541; Online ISSN: 1755-6260. All book reviews are open access.
Current volume is Volume 50 Part 1, 2023
Archives of Natural History Advisory Board 2023
Professor Kraig Adler, Dr Paul D. Brinkman, Dr Clemency T. Fisher, Professor Matthias Glaubrecht, Professor Sachiko Kusukawa, Professor H. Walter Lack, Professor Arthur M. Lucas, Dr Robert McCracken Peck, Dr Pat Morris, Professor Harriet Ritvo, Professor Anna Marie Roos, Dr Geoffrey N. Swinney, Professor Hugh S. Torrens, Dr John van Wyhe, and Dr Ray Williams.
Archives of Natural History Editorial Team
Editor: Dr Anne Secord, Cambridge University
Email: editor@shnh.org.uk
Associate Editors: Dr. E. Charles Nelson, Ms Elaine Shaughnessy, Mr Ingvar Svanberg.
Book Reviews Editor: Ms Maggie Reilly
Email books@shnh.org.uk
Postal address for Book Reviews: Ms Maggie Reilly, The Hunterian (Zoology), Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Subscription Information
SHNH Members: Archives of Natural History is freely available to members of SHNH – Society for the History of Natural History. Members have full online access to all previous issues dating back to 1936. To learn more about membership of the Society please visit our membership page.
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A cumulative index is available for the Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History and Archives of Natural History, volumes 1-38.
Submissions
The Editors welcomes the submission of articles to Archives of Natural History on the history and bibliography of natural history in its broadest sense, and in all periods and all cultures. Full instructions for submitting an article can be found here on the Edinburgh University Press ANH submission page.
All papers submitted must be original and will be subject to peer review before acceptance for publication. The peer-review process for Archives of Natural History is explained here.
The Editors can advise authors about the suitability and format of papers. Papers must be submitted via email to the Editors using the following email address: editor@shnh.org.uk. Detailed instructions on preparing a paper for email submission can be downloaded here – Instructions for authors.
Any paper that does not follow the style and format required for Archives of Natural History, as detailed in these instructions for authors may be returned to the author(s) for modification before being considered for possible publication.
Archives of Natural History Volume 49, part 1 (2022)
Archives of Natural History, Volume 49, part 1, 2022
Mo Koundje (“Mok”): the life of a western lowland gorilla (c.1929–1938)
Rebecca Machin
49(1), pp. 1–11
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A bonnacon’s defensive tactics in medieval natural history
John Block Friedman
49(1), pp. 12–26
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Edward Morgan (c.1619–c.1689) and his hortus siccus: an early record of Welsh plants
Philip H. Oswald
49(1), pp. 27–40
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Alexander Charles Stephen (1893–1966): contributions on Scottish benthic ecology, systematics and biological recording
P. G. Moore
49(1), pp. 41–61
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The colouring of John Curtis’s British entomology (1834–1839): Joseph Standish and “the paragon of perfection”
Anthony French
49(1), pp. 62–77
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Evidence that Temminck described Felis aurata in 1825, not 1827
Andrew C. Kitchener , Franklin T. Simo , Badru Mugerwa and James G. Sanderson
49(1), pp. 78–85
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Giant tortoises collected from Charles Island (Isla Floreana), Galápagos, during the voyage of USS Potomac, 1831–1834
Robert H. Rothman
49(1), pp. 86–101
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George Perry (c.1718–1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist
Stephen Leach and Hugh S. Torrens
49(1), pp. 102–116
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George Perry (1771–1823): architect and naturalist
Stephen Leach and Hugh S. Torrens
49(1), pp. 117–129
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Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747) as a colourer
John A. Edgington
49(1), pp. 130–140
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Charles Plumier’s anatomical drawings and description of the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus (1694–1697)
Theodore W. Pietsch
49(1), pp. 141–159
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The golden age (1862–1910) of the Zoological Section of the Museu Nacional de Lisboa (National Museum of Lisbon), Portugal
Daniel Gamito-Marques
49(1), pp. 160–174
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John Kay’s The craft in danger (1817): graphic satire and natural history in nineteenth-century Edinburgh
Wendy McGlashan
49(1), pp. 175–188
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Natural history and the Raj: popular wildlife literature for readers in Britain and the British Empire in India (1858–1947)
Peter J. Bowler
49(1), pp. 189–203
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Short Notes
Discovery of a miniature portrait of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (New York, 1818)
Hermann L. Strack
49(1), pp. 204–207
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Philip Henry Gosse: more additions, mainly horticultural, to his bibliography
E. Charles Nelson
49(1), pp. 207–210
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A history of plant collecting (1927–1986) at Chishimba Falls, Kasama District, Zambia
Emmanuel L. Kapongolo, Gillian Kabwe and Patrick S. M. Phiri
49(1), pp. 210–214
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Corrigendum
Emily Lawless and Charles Darwin: an Irish mystery (Archives of Natural History 43: 148–151)
E. Charles Nelson
49(1), pp. 215
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Book Reviews
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 complete
E. Geoffrey Hancock
49(1), pp. 216–217
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McBURNEY, Henrietta. Illuminating natural history: the art and science of Mark Catesby
Robert Mccracken Peck
49(1), pp. 217–218
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HONEGGER, Thomas. Introducing the medieval dragon.
SMITHIES, Kathryn L. Introducing the medieval ass
John Block Friedman
49(1), pp. 218–219
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JACKSON, Christine E. A newsworthy naturalist: the life of William Yarrell
Tim Birkhead
49(1), pp. 220
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (OMNH), Douglas Palmer (Introduction), Robert MacFarlane (Foreword). Strata: William Smith’s geological maps
Paul D. Brinkman
49(1), pp. 221
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PECK, Robert McCracken. The natural history of Edward Lear
Clemency Fisher
49(1), pp. 222
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MARTIN, Simon. Drawn to nature: Gilbert White and the artists
Diana Donald
49(1), pp. 223
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ETHERIDGE, Kay and RITTERSON, Michael (translator). The flowering of ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian’s caterpillar book
Arthur Macgregor
49(1), pp. 224
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BEINART, William and DUBOW, Saul. The scientific imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the present
A. M. Lucas
49(1), pp. 225
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DRIVER, Felix, NESBITT, Mark and CORNISH, Caroline (editors). Mobile museums, collections in circulation
Robert Huxley
49(1), pp. 226
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THIERS, Barbara M. Herbarium: the quest to preserve and classify the world’s plants
Gina Douglas
49(1), pp. 227
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HARRIS, Stephen J. Roots to seeds. 400 years of Oxford botany
John Edgington
49(1), pp. 227–228
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KEOGH, Luke. The Wardian case: how a simple box moved plants and changed the world
Geraldine Reid
49(1), pp. 228–229
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HICKMAN, Clare. The doctor’s garden. Medicine, science and horticulture in Britain.
E. Charles Nelson
49(1), pp. 229–230
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