Archives of natural history Volume 36

part 1 (April 2009)

[Editorial]: Journals under threat: a joint response from history of science, technology and medicine editors: 1–3.

P. G. MOORE: James Thomas Marshall’s correspondence (1887–1895) with Scotland’s Alexander Somerville: practical, personal and controversial matters in conchology: 4–25.

E. C. NELSON: Daniel Chambers Macreight FRCP, FLS (1799–1856), a little-known, innovative Irish botanist: 26–36.

M. MASSETI: Pictorial evidence from medieval Italy of cheetahs and caracals, and their use in hunting: 37–47.

G. MANGANELLI, E. LORI & S. CIANFANELLI: Eponyms honouring Marianna Paulucci (1835–1919): 48–52.

P. A. MORRIS & M. J. MORRIS: Evidence of the former abundance of tigers (Panthera tigris) and leopards (Panthera pardus) from the taxidermy ledgers of Van Ingen & Van Ingen, Mysore: 53–62.

K. BARTHELMESS & I. SVANBERG: Two eighteenth-century strandings of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) on the Swedish coast: 63–69.

A. DATTA: Alwyne (Wyn) Cooper Wheeler (1929–2005) and the libraries of the Natural History Museum, London: 70–76.

A. DATTA: Bibliography of publications written by Alwyne (Wyn) Cooper Wheeler (1929–2005): 77–99.

W. J. POLY: Brimleyana (1979–1998): publication dates of issues and zoological names: 100–106.

E. C. NELSON & J. HAFFER: The ornithological observations of James Parsons Burkitt in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland: 107–128.

S. G. SEALY: Cuckoos and their fosterers: uncovering details of Edward Blyth’s field experiments: 129–135.

J. DEN HENGST: The dodo and scientific fantasies: durable myths of a tough bird: 136–135.

R. BROOKS: All too human: responses to same-sex copulation in the common cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha (L.)), 1834–1900 (William T. Stearn Prize 2008):146–159.

SHORT NOTES

W. D. I. ROLFE & A. CEREGATO: “A fossilized nut?”: a drawing from Aldrovandi in the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: 160–163.

D. G. MEDWAY: The Berlin specimen of the Hawaiian Ou Psittirostra psittacea: 163–165.

R. J. CLEEVELY: Some notes and comments on the illustrations of Henry Charles Andrews (fl. 1790s–1830s): 165–167.

Book reviews: 168–187.



part 2 (October 2009) Abstracts

D. R. CALDER: The Reverend Thomas Hincks FRS (1818–1899): taxonomist of Bryozoa and Hydrozoa: 189–217.

E. G. HANCOCK & A. S DOUGLAS: William Hunter’s Goliath beetle, Goliathus goliatus (Linnaeus, 1771), re-visited: 218–230.   

D. G. MEDWAY: The fate of the bird specimens from Cook’s voyages possessed by Sir Joseph Banks: 231–243.

D. R. CALDER: Charles Wesley Hargitt (1852–1927): American educator and cnidarian biologist: 244–261.

R. A. G. REYES: Botany and zoology in the late seventeenth-century Philippines: the work of Georg Josef Camel SJ (1661–1706): 262–276.

M. H. LAZARUS & H. S. PARDOE: Bute’s Botanical tables: dictated by Nature: 277–298.

M. B. NOWAK-KEMP: 150 years of changing attitudes towards zoological collections in a university museum: the case of the Thomas Bell tortoise collection in the Oxford University Museum: 299–315.

M. WALTERS: The identity of the birds depicted in Shaw and Miller’s Cimelia physica: 316–326.

OBITUARIES

F. F. J. M. PIETERS: Professor L. B. Holthuis (1921–2008), carcinologist and historian of natural history: 327–337.

A. P. HARVEY: Gavin Douglas Ruthven Bridson (1936–2008), bibliographer, librarian and scholar: an appreciation: 338–351.

SHORT NOTES

H. A. McGHIE: Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace concerning the Darwin commemorations of 1909: 352–354.

D. Q. KING: A checklist of sources of the botanical illustrations in the Grindon Herbarium, The Manchester Museum: additional sources: 354–356.

SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY: FOUNDING & EARLY MEMBERS: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES – 1

R. J. CLEEVELY: Charles Davies Sherborn: geologist and scientific bibliographer: 357–359.

P. GILBERT: Alexander Cockburn Townsend: librarian (British Museum (Natural History) 1930–1964) and bibliographer: 359–360.

A. M. MOORE & F. WARR: Stanley Smyth Flower: professional soldier, scientific advisor, administrator, zoologist: 361–362.

C. M. C. HAINES: Agnes Arber (née Robertson): botanist, historian of natural history, biographer: 363–364.

Book reviews: 365–366

Indexes to ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY 36: 377–380.