A new issue of Archives of Natural History (October 2020, 47.2) is now available online

Archives of natural history is the journal of the Society for the History of Natural History, providing an avenue for the publication of research on the history and bibliography of natural history in its broadest sense. Published since 1943, articles cover topics such as botany, general biology, geology, palaeontology and zoology, the lives and work of naturalists and the institutions and societies to which they belong.

 CONTENTS

• N. E. C. Smith:
  • Provincial mycology and the legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899) (W. T. Stearn Prize 2019)
• H. Wu & C. Zheng:
  • Transmission of Renaissance herbal images to China: the Beitang copy of Mattioli’s commentaries on Dioscorides and its annotations
• P. F. Riches:
  • A recently discovered hand-coloured geological map of Norfolk and Suffolk attributed to Richard Cowling Taylor (1789–1851)
• M. A. Weston, M. R. Yarwood, D. A. Whisson & M. R. E. Symonds:
  • Persistent spatial gaps in ornithological study in Australia, 1901–2011
• J. Hollier & A. Hollier:
  • Aloïs Humbert (1829–1887), the first professional curator of natural history in Geneva
• P. Stone:
  • Robert McCormick and the circumstances of his Arctic fossil collection, 1852–1853
• D. J. Lindsay:
  • The limits of imperial influence: John James Audubon in British North America
• T. Topfer:
  • Great auk (Pinguinus impennis) eggs in Bonn: correspondence between Emile Parzudaki and Robert Champley
• D. Berrens:
  • Naming an unknown animal: the case of the sloth (Folivora)
• N. Woodman, J. G. Mead and M. R. McGowen:
  • “Mostri Marini”: Constantine S. Rafinesque’s names for three of Antonino Mongitore’s Sicilian whales
• P. G. Moore:
  • Frederick William Flattely (1888–1937): naturalist and “Renaissance man”
• N. E. C. Smith:
  • Narrative histories in mycology and the legacy of George Edward Massee (1845–1917)
• C. M. Brown:
  • Harry Pasley Higginson and his role in the re-discovery of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus)
• T. R. Birkhead, G. Axon and J. R. Middleton:
  • Restoration of two great auk (Pinguinus impennis) eggs: Bourman Labrey’s egg and the Scarborough egg

Obituary

• G. Douglas:
  • Raymond George Coulter Desmond, MBE, FLS Honoris causa (1925–2020)

Book Reviews, Indexes to Volume 47 and Referees