Archives of Natural History Volume 49, part 1 is published. See list of Articles and Book Reviews below. Featured article is ‘John Kay’s The craft in danger (1817): graphic satire and natural history in nineteenth-century Edinburgh’ by Wendy McGlashan

Archives of Natural History 49 part 1 is now available online: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/anh/49/1.

The featured article is Wendy McGlashan’s John Kay’s The craft in danger (1817): graphic satire and natural history in nineteenth-century Edinburgh.

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The table of contents for this issue is listed below. Click the links below to view the abstract for each article, or click the link above to read the table of contents online.

Archives of Natural History, Volume 49, part 1, 2022

Mo Koundje (“Mok”): the life of a western lowland gorilla (c.1929–1938)
Rebecca Machin
49(1), pp. 1–11
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A bonnacon’s defensive tactics in medieval natural history
John Block Friedman
49(1), pp. 12–26
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Edward Morgan (c.1619–c.1689) and his hortus siccus: an early record of Welsh plants
Philip H. Oswald
49(1), pp. 27–40
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Alexander Charles Stephen (1893–1966): contributions on Scottish benthic ecology, systematics and biological recording
P. G. Moore
49(1), pp. 41–61
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The colouring of John Curtis’s British entomology (1834–1839): Joseph Standish and “the paragon of perfection”
Anthony French
49(1), pp. 62–77
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Evidence that Temminck described Felis aurata in 1825, not 1827
Andrew C. Kitchener , Franklin T. Simo , Badru Mugerwa and James G. Sanderson
49(1), pp. 78–85
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Giant tortoises collected from Charles Island (Isla Floreana), Galápagos, during the voyage of USS Potomac, 1831–1834
Robert H. Rothman
49(1), pp. 86–101
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George Perry (c.1718–1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist
Stephen Leach and Hugh S. Torrens
49(1), pp. 102–116
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George Perry (1771–1823): architect and naturalist
Stephen Leach and Hugh S. Torrens
49(1), pp. 117–129
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Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747) as a colourer
John A. Edgington
49(1), pp. 130–140
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Charles Plumier’s anatomical drawings and description of the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus (1694–1697)
Theodore W. Pietsch
49(1), pp. 141–159
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The golden age (1862–1910) of the Zoological Section of the Museu Nacional de Lisboa (National Museum of Lisbon), Portugal
Daniel Gamito-Marques
49(1), pp. 160–174
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John Kay’s The craft in danger (1817): graphic satire and natural history in nineteenth-century Edinburgh
Wendy McGlashan
49(1), pp. 175–188
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Natural history and the Raj: popular wildlife literature for readers in Britain and the British Empire in India (1858–1947)
Peter J. Bowler
49(1), pp. 189–203
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Short Notes

Discovery of a miniature portrait of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (New York, 1818)
Hermann L. Strack
49(1), pp. 204–207
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Philip Henry Gosse: more additions, mainly horticultural, to his bibliography
E. Charles Nelson
49(1), pp. 207–210
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A history of plant collecting (1927–1986) at Chishimba Falls, Kasama District, Zambia
Emmanuel L. Kapongolo, Gillian Kabwe and Patrick S. M. Phiri
49(1), pp. 210–214
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Corrigendum

Emily Lawless and Charles Darwin: an Irish mystery (Archives of Natural History 43: 148–151)
E. Charles Nelson
49(1), pp. 215
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Book Reviews

VANE-WRIGHT, Richard I. (Introduction) in partnership with the OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. Iconotypes. A compendium of butterflies and moths. Jones’s Icones complete
E. Geoffrey Hancock
49(1), pp. 216–217
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McBURNEY, Henrietta. Illuminating natural history: the art and science of Mark Catesby
Robert Mccracken Peck
49(1), pp. 217–218
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HONEGGER, Thomas. Introducing the medieval dragon.
SMITHIES, Kathryn L. Introducing the medieval ass
John Block Friedman
49(1), pp. 218–219
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JACKSON, Christine E. A newsworthy naturalist: the life of William Yarrell
Tim Birkhead
49(1), pp. 220
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (OMNH), Douglas Palmer (Introduction), Robert MacFarlane (Foreword). Strata: William Smith’s geological maps
Paul D. Brinkman
49(1), pp. 221
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PECK, Robert McCracken. The natural history of Edward Lear
Clemency Fisher
49(1), pp. 222
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MARTIN, Simon. Drawn to nature: Gilbert White and the artists
Diana Donald
49(1), pp. 223
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ETHERIDGE, Kay and RITTERSON, Michael (translator). The flowering of ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian’s caterpillar book
Arthur Macgregor
49(1), pp. 224
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BEINART, William and DUBOW, Saul. The scientific imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the present
A. M. Lucas
49(1), pp. 225
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DRIVER, Felix, NESBITT, Mark and CORNISH, Caroline (editors). Mobile museums, collections in circulation
Robert Huxley
49(1), pp. 226
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THIERS, Barbara M. Herbarium: the quest to preserve and classify the world’s plants
Gina Douglas
49(1), pp. 227
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HARRIS, Stephen J. Roots to seeds. 400 years of Oxford botany
John Edgington
49(1), pp. 227–228
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KEOGH, Luke. The Wardian case: how a simple box moved plants and changed the world
Geraldine Reid
49(1), pp. 228–229
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HICKMAN, Clare. The doctor’s garden. Medicine, science and horticulture in Britain.
E. Charles Nelson
49(1), pp. 229–230
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