Celebrating Women & their contributions to Natural History published in “Archives of Natural History”
March 2019 celebrates women in natural history with the aim of increasing awareness of, and information about, women in the biodiversity sciences. #HerNaturalHistory month has seen the sharing of stories, collections, publications, artworks, archival materials, exhibits, and other resources highlighting women and their contributions to natural history. For more information see Her Natural History: A Celebration of Women in Natural History.
The Society for the History of Natural History’s meeting on Women in the History of Natural Sciences was held in 2017 and a 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. Some highlights include:
- Anna Blackburne (1726-1793)–a neglected patroness of natural history
V. P. Wystrach, 8(2), pp. 148–168 - Marianne North’s Recollections of a happy life: how they came to be written and published
Brenda E. Moon, 8(4), pp. 497–505 - The botanical drawings of Margaret Stones in the E. A. Mcllhenny natural history collection at Louisiana State University
Gail D. Chance and Kathryn Morgan, 17(2), pp. 201–236 - Anne Lister, illustrator of Martin Lister’s Historiæ Conchyliorum (1685–1692)
J. D. Woodley, 21(2), pp. 225–229 - An anonymous account of Mary Anning (1799–1847), fossil collector of Lyme Regis, England, published in Chambers’s journal in 1857, and its attribution to Frank Buckland (1826–1880), George Roberts (c.1804–1860) and William Buckland (1784–1856)Michael A. Taylor and Hugh S. Torrens, 41(2), pp. 309–325
In Volume 46 (1) of Archives of Natural History published in April 2019 are the following new articles relating to #WomenInScience:
- E. Charles Nelson, 2019. Katherine Sophia Baily (Lady Kane) and The Irish Flora (1833) 46(1), pp. 44–57.
- L. J. Dorr, 2019. Mary and William Pool and their (mostly her) Malagasy lichen and plant collections 46 (1), pp. 134–138.
- S. Strekopytov, 2019 Ann Lee’s plate in a 1771 edition of Directions for Bringing Over Seeds and Plants. 46 (1), pp. 153–156.
- C. Duigan, 2019. Carpenter’s “Food relations” 1925: the first British diagrammatic representation of a freshwater food web?46 (1), pp.160–163.
Other articles of interest relating to the contribution of women to natural history to be found in Archives of Natural History include:
- Ann B. Shteir, 1985. Priscilla Wakefield’s natural history books, pp. 29–36 in Alwyne Wheeler & James H. Price, From Linnaeus to Darwin: commentaries on the history of biology and geology (Special Publication no. 3).
- Helena C. G. Ross and Robert Nash, 1985. The development of natural history in early ninteenth-century Ireland [Ann Elizabeth (1808–1872) and Mary Ball (1812–1898) – women naturalists], pp. 13–27 in Alwyne Wheeler & James H. Price, From Linnaeus to Darwin: commentaries on the history of biology and geology (Special Publication no. 3).
- Ray Desmond, 2001. Nesta Ewan (1908–2000) 28(2), pp. 269–271.
- David Symon, 2003. Wild Flowers of South Australia (1861) by Fanny De Mole 30(1), pp. 139–148.
- Ann B. Shteir, 2003. Bentham for “beginners and amateurs” and ladies: Handbook of the British flora 30(2), pp. 237–249.
- D. E. Allen, 2004. An 1861 instance of “painting one’s Bentham”[Elizabeth Hood] 31(2), pp. 356–357.
- P. G. Moore, 2005. Dr Baird and his feminine eponyms; biographical considerations and ostracod nomenclature 32(1), pp. 92–105.
- Leonie Paterson and P. G. Moore, 2006. Victorian natural scientists overlooking the Firth of Clyde: Marion Spottiswood Balfour the photographer. 33 (1), pp. 172–174.
- Peter Dance, 2007. Savouring The edible mollusks of M. S. [Matilda Sophia] Lovell 34(1), pp. 192–198.
- G. Manganelli, E. Lori and S. Cianfanelli, 2009. Eponyms honouring Marianna Paulucci (1835–1919) 36(1), pp. 48–52.
- Catharine M. C. Haine, 2009. Agnes ARBER (née Robertson): botanist, historian of natural history, biographer 36(2), pp. 363–364.
- Charles Nelson, 2010. Dating vellum cut-work images of two Asian birds attributed to Mrs Mary Delany (1700–1788) 37(1), pp. 163–165.
- Rosemary Ng Kee Kwong, 2012. Marie Madeleine Ly-Tio-Fane (1928–2011) 39(2), pp. 338–341.
- Sara Albuquerque, 2012. Watercolours of orchids native to British Guiana at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, attributed to Hannah Cassels im Thurn (1854–1947) 39(2), pp. 344–347.
- Peter Dance, 2012. Another taste of [Matilda Sophia] Lovell’s Edible mollusks 39 (1), pp. 165–166.
- T. Kinukawa, 2011. Natural history as entrepreneurship: Maria Sibylla Merian’s correspondence with J. G. Volkamer II and James Petiver 38(2), pp. 313–327.
- Christine E. Jackson, 2011. The painting of hand-coloured zoological illustrations 38(1), pp. 36–52.
- A. Bryant, H. Plaisier, L. M. Irvine, A. McLean, M. Jones and M. E. Spencer Jones, 2016. Life and work of Margaret Gatty (1809–1873), with particular reference to British sea-weeds (1863) 43(1), pp. 131–147.
- Charles Nelson, 2016. Emily Lawless and Charles Darwin: an Irish mystery 43(1), pp. 148–151.
- Arthur MacGregor, 2016. Juliet Clutton-Brock (1933–2015): Honorary Member (2010), Associate Editor 43(1), pp. 159–162.
- Charles Nelson, 2016. Notes from Wisbech and Fenland Museum: Mrs Doyle’s Dublin shells 43(1), pp. 171–173.
- Plaisier, J. A. Bryant, L. M. Irvine, A. Mclean, M. Jones and M. E. Spencer Jones, 2016. The life and work of Margaret Gatty (1809–1873), with particular reference to her seaweed collections 43(2), pp. 336–350.
- Charles Nelson, 2017. Antoinette Emily Dyce (1845–1927), Mrs Danford 44(2), pp. 367–370.
- Christine E. Jackson, 2018. The Ward family of taxidermists[Jane Catherine Ward (Mrs Charles G. Tost) (c. 1817–1889)] 45(1), pp. 1–13.
- G. Moore, 2018. Dorothy Constance Gibb (1907–2006), Aberdonian algologist 45(1), pp. 153–155.
- Beverley F. Ronalds, 2018. Elizabeth (Betsey) Ronalds (1788–1854): horticultural illustrator 45(1), 159–162.
- Brendan Luyt, 2018. Michael Tweedie, Woutera [Sophia Suzanna] van Benthem Jutting and the Mollusca of Malaya’s limestone hills 45(2), pp. 245–259.
- A. Taylor, 2018. A memoir of Hugh Miller (1802–1856) by Harriet M. Taylor 45(2), pp. 369–372.