ANH Virtual Issues
Welcome to the Archives of Natural History virtual issues.
Archives of Natural History publishes peer-reviewed papers on the history and bibliography of natural history in its broadest sense, and in all periods and all cultures. This is taken to include botany, general biology, geology, palaeontology and zoology, the lives of naturalists, their publications, correspondence and collections, and the institutions and societies to which they belong.
Explore our themed collections, all taken from the Archives of Natural History archive. The articles in each collection are free, except for the Previous Themed Issues. Readers may also like to know that some thematic issues are also available through the Archives of Natural History online through your membership or institutional subscription. See here for more information.
Print ISSN: 0260-9541; Online ISSN: 1755-6260
Women in Natural Sciences
The Society for the History of Natural History’s meeting on Women in the History of Natural Sciences was held in 2017 and this virtual issue celebrates and makes available the achievements of women in papers already published in Archives of Natural History. These are all currently free to view or download.
Voyages of Exploration (Cook & Endeavour)
The content of this virtual issue has been made available to complement the 2018 meeting, “Bon Voyage? 250 years of Exploring the Natural World” celebrating the anniversary of Capitan James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific. These are all currently free to view or download.
Additional Voyages
The content of this virtual issue has been made available to complement the 2018 meeting, “Bon Voyage? 250 years of Exploring the Natural World” celebrating the anniversary of Capitan James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific. These are all currently free to view or download. Topics include the voyages of the Investigator (1801-1805) and the Chatham (1791-1795, The Malaspina Expedition (1789–1794), the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 and the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia (1761-1767).
Previous Themed Issues
- Vol. 6(6) 1974: Sowerby and his family
- Vol. 7(4) 1976 Proceedings of the Easter meeting April 1975. Manuscripts and natural history, Natural history and exploration, Descriptive bibliography, New trends in the history of natural history
- Vol. 8(4) May 1978 Proceedings of the Second Easter Meeting of the Society, London, 13-15 April, 1977 Manuscripts and Natural History, Travel and exploration, Bibliography, History of Natural History.
- Vol. 9(4) 1980: Collectors and collections in Europe
- Vol. 11(3) April 1984 Daniel Solander
- Vol. 20(2) June 1993: Papers from the History of Ornithology Conference, Liverpool, September 1992
- Vol 22(3) October 1995 Malacology
- Vol. 30(2) October 2003 George Bentham
- Vol. 32(2) October 2005 A Century of Discovery. Antarctic exploration and the Southern Ocean