Archives of natural history Volume 35

part 1 (April published May 2008)

H. BRINK-ROBY: Siren canora: the mermaid and the mythical in late nineteenth-century science (William T. Stearn Prize 2007): 1–14.

A. M. LUCAS: Disposing of John Lindley’s library and herbarium: the offer to Australia: 15–70.

R. MacANDREW: Robert McAndrew FRS (1802–1873) – a family perspective: 71–75.

J. HAFFER: The origin of modern ornithology in Europe: 76–87.

F. D. STEINHEIMER: Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein and his ornithological purchases at the auction of William Bullock’s museum in 1819: 88–99.

M. MASSETI: Sculptures of mammals in the Grotta degli Animali of the Villa Medici di Castello, Florence, Italy: a stone menagerie: 100–104.

S. A. DIGBY: Early twentieth-century collection of extinct mammals from northern Siberia: the provenance of Bassett Digby’s contributions to the Natural History Museum, London, and the British Museum: 107–117.

F. W. WELTER-SCHULTES, R. KLUG & A. LUTZE: Les figures des plantes et animaux d’usage en medecine, a rare work published by F. A. P. de Garsault in 1764: 118–127.

F. G. PAGE: James Rennie (1787–1867), author, naturalist and lecturer: 128–142.

W. R. P. BOURNE: Petrels collected by Titian Ramsay Peale in the Pacific Ocean during the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842: 143–149.

R. AXELBY: Calcutta Botanic Garden and the colonial re-ordering of the Indian environment: 150–163.

J. A. TIPTON: Aristotle’s observations of the foraging interactions of the red mullet (Mullidae: Mullus spp) and sea bream (Sparidae: Diplodus spp): 164–171.

SHORT NOTES

D. E. ALLEN: Stamp collecting and natural history: 172–174.

C. GRIGSON, C. GROVES, A. C. KITCHENER & W. D. I. ROLFE: Stubbs’s “Drill and albino hamadryas baboon” in conjectural historical context – a possible correction: 174–175.

OBITUARY

Frederick Henry Burkhardt (13 September 1912–23 September 2007) [by ANNE SECORD]: 176–177.

Book reviews: 180–190.

part 2 (October 2008)

S. MASTER: Henry Edward Richard Bright: a forgotten pioneer of the geological and palaeontological exploration of Lesotho in the 1870s: 191–202.

C. H. SMITH: Alfred Russel Wallace, journalist: 202–207.

M. DeARCE: Correspondence of Charles Darwin on James Torbitt’s project to breed blight-resistant potatoes: 208–222.

M. B. SIMPSON Jr & S. W. SIMPSON: John Lawson’s A new voyage to Carolina: notes on the publication history of the London (1709) edition: 223–242.

R. K. KINZELBACH: Pre-Linnaean pictures of the secretarybird, Sagittarius serpentarius (J. F. Miller, 1779): 243–251.

W.  J.  TENNENT, MASATOSHI  YASUDA & KATSURA  MORIMOTO: Lansania Journal of arachnology and zoology – a rare and obscure Japanese natural history journal: 252–280.

T. R. BIRKHEAD & S. van BALEN: Bird-keeping and the development of ornithological science: 281–305.

C. LAVERS & M. KNAPP: On the origin of khutū: 306–318.

I. CHARMANTIER, M. GREENGRASS & T. R. BIRKHEAD: Rewriting Renaissance ornithology: Jean Baptiste Faultrier’s “Traitté general des oyseaux” (1660): 319–338.

R. B. WILLIAMS & B. G. CALLERY: The states and printing history (1861–1864) of John Henry Gurney’s A descriptive catalogue of the raptorial birds in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum: 339–359.

SHORT NOTE

R. B. WILLIAMS: Philip Henry Gosse at Mobile, Alabama: his unique record of a sea shanty: 360–363.

Book reviews: 364–376.

Indexes to Archives of natural history 35 (2008): 377–380.