SHNH Archives of natural history Volume 38.1 is now published
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Contents Archives of natural history Volume 38.1 April 2011
N. P. HELLSTRÖM: The tree as evolutionary icon: TREE in the Natural History Museum, London. William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 2010.
G. MANGANELLI, A. BENOCCI & V. SPADINI: Biagio Bartalini’s “Catalogo dei corpi marini fossili che si trovano intorno a Siena” (1776).
C. E. JACKSON: The painting of hand-coloured zoological illustrations.
C. E. JACKSON: The materials and methods of hand-colouring zoological illustrations.
R. A. BAKER & R. A. BAYLISS: The Valencia Harbour survey (1895 and 1896) in Ireland, with special reference to the work of Edward Thomas Browne (1866–1937).
T. W. PIETSCH: Charles Plumier’s “Manicou Caraibarum” (c. 1690): a previously unpublished description and drawing of the common opossum, Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758.
B. MORTON: The Great Barrier Reef Expedition’s “Coral Corroboree”, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 10 July 1928: an historical portent.
E. C. NELSON: “A botanical encampment at the foot of Ben Voirlich June 22d. 1821” by Robert Kaye Greville, and a Scottish beetle.
E. C. NELSON & D. M. PORTER: Archibald Menzies on Albemarle Island, Galápagos archipelago, 7 February 1795.
K. J. LAMBKIN: The golden geyser – Robert Logan Jack and the geology of Mount Morgan, Queensland.
E. ROTA: Early oligochaete science, from Aristotle to Francesco Redi.
Short notes
P. A. COCHRAN: On the identity of Samuel de Champlain’s “chaousarou”.
J. J. F. J. JANSEN: Sale catalogue of Adriaan Vroeg’s collection in the National Library of Australia, Canberra.
P. G. MOORE: Briefly befitting breffits.
R. B. WILLIAMS: The artists and wood-engravers for Thomas Bell’s History of British quadrupeds.
J. P. HODGES: Mode of address of the nineteenth-century naturalist P. H. Gosse.
G. MANGANELLI & A. BENOCCI: Niccolò Gualtieri (1688–1744): biographical sketch of a pioneer of conchology.
P. DASZKIEWICZ: Feliks Jarocki’s Zoologiia czyli zwierzętopismo (1821–1838): an example of scientific misconduct in the nineteenth century.