Archives of Natural History Vol. 38.2 now published online
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Contents Archives of natural history Volume 38.2 September 2011
Patron’s review. SACHIKO KUSUKAWA: The role of images in the development of Renaissance natural history.
K. FREDGA, T. STJERNBERG & I. SVANBERG: An early (1834) illustration of the wood lemming, Myopus schisticolor (Lilljeborg, 1844), from Finland.
S. G. SEALY & M. F. GUIGUENO: Cuckoo chicks evicting their nest mates: coincidental observations by Edward Jenner in England and Antoine Joseph Lottinger in France.
P. G. MOORE: Eric Fitch Daglish (1892–1966): naturalist, illustrator, author and editor.
R. B. WILLIAMS & P. G. MOORE: An annotated catalogue of the marine biological paintings of Thomas Alan Stephenson (1898–1961).
H. J. NOLTIE: A botanical group in Lahore, 1864.
D. G. MEDWAY: The contribution of Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), Welsh naturalist, to the Australian ornithology of Cook’s first voyage (1768–1771).
P. G. MOORE: The background to the proposition that plankton be used as food in the United Kingdom during the Second World War.
H. O. CLARK, Jr: The history of arid-land fox discoveries in North America.
T. KINUKAWA: Natural history as entrepreneurship: Maria Sibylla Merian’s correspondence with J. G. Volkamer II and James Petiver.
R. J. BERRY: John Ray, physico-theology and afterwards.
Short notes
C. H. SMITH: Alfred Russel Wallace notes 3: two early publications.
C. H. SMITH: Alfred Russel Wallace notes 4: contributions to The garden, 1875–1912.
G. C. CADÉE: Sea heart and nickar nuts in a Flemish painting of 1617.
E. C. NELSON & J. B. RISTAINO: The Potato Late Blight pathogen in Ireland, 1846: reconnecting Irish specimens with the Moore–Berkeley correspondence.