Book reviews

Books for review in Archives of Natural History should be sent to

Ms Maggie Reilly
Zoology Curator
The Hunterian (Zoology)
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
UK

Email: books@shnh.org.uk

New titles of interest are reviewed in Archives of Natural History and are freely available.  To read the reviews, please see the ANH page on the EUP website.

Books reviewed in 2018

• Bellorini, Cristina. The world of plants in Renaissance Tuscany: medicine and botany. ANH 45(2), p. 390
• Birkhead, Tim (Ed.). Virtuoso by nature: the scientific worlds of Francis Willughby FRS (1635–1672). ANH 45(1), pp. 184–185
• Brockliss, Laurence (Ed.). From provincial savant to Parisian naturalist, the recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741–1824). ANH 45(2), p. 382
• Bruce, Gary. Through the Lion Gate: a history of the Berlin Zoo. MOHNHAUPT, Jan. Der Zoo der Anderen – als die Stasi ihr Herz für Brillenbären entdeckte & Helmut Schmidt mit Pandas nachrüstete. ANH 45(1), pp. 195–196
• Convery, Ian and Davis, Peter (Eds.). Changing perceptions of nature. ANH 45(1), pp. 192–193
• Craciun, Adriana and Schaffer, Simon (Eds.). The material cultures of Enlightenment arts and sciences. ANH 45(2), p. 381
• Dacome, Lucia.Malleable anatomies. Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy. ANH 45(2), p. 383
• Dawson, Gowan. Show me the bone: reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America. ANH 45(1), pp. 185–186
• Echenberg, Myron.Humboldt’s Mexico: in the footsteps of the illustrious German scientific traveller. ANH 45(2), p. 384
• Egmond, Florike. Eye for detail, images of plants and animals in art and science 1500–1630. ANH 45(1), pp. 191–192
• Elliott, Brent, Guerrini, Luigi, and Pegler, David Norman. Flora: Federico Cesi’s botanical manuscripts. ANH 45(1), pp. 181–182
• Evans, Samantha.Darwin and women: a selection of letters. ANH 45(2), p. 392
• Frenz, Lothar. Nashörner – ein Portrait. ANH 45(2), p. 391
• Gooding, Mel, Mabberley, David and Studhome, Joe. Joseph Banks’ Florilegium: botanical treasures from Cook’s first voyage. ANH 45(2), p. 380
• Grande, Lance. Curators. Behind the scenes of natural history museums. ANH 45(1), pp. 183–184
• Hose, Thomas A. (Ed.). Geoheritage and geotourism: a European perspective. ANH 45(2), p. 389
• Klein, Ursula. Nützliches Wissen. Die Erfindung der Technikwissenschaften. ANH 45(1), pp. 187–188
• Lasser, Ethan W. (Ed.). The philosophy chamber: art and science in Harvard’s teaching cabinet, 1766–1820. ANH 45(2), pp. 379–380
• Lescaze, Zoë.Paleoart: visions of the prehistoric past. ANH 45(2), pp. 387–388
• Mahood, M. M. A John Clare flora. ANH 45(1), pp. 179–180
• Manning, Patrick and Rood, Daniel (editors). Global scientific practice in an age of revolutions, 1750–1850. ANH 45(2), p. 385
• Mabberley, David J. Painting by numbers: the life and art of Ferdinand Bauer. ANH 45(2), p. 387
• McGhie, Henry A.Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology: birds, books and business. ANH 45(2), p. 386
• Pietsch, Theodore W. (Ed). Cuvier’s History of the natural sciences, twenty four lessons from antiquity to the Renaissance; Pietsch, Theodore W. (Ed). Cuvier’s History of the natural sciences, nineteen lessons on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ANH 45(1), pp. 180–181
• Redman, Samuel, J. Bone rooms: from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums. ANH 45(1), pp. 182–183
• Twyman, Michael (Ed.). John Phillips’s lithographic notebook. Reproduced in facsimile from the original at Oxford University Museum of Natural History. ANH 45(1), p. 188
• Vetter, Jeremy. Field life: science in the American West during the railroad era. ANH 45(1), pp. 190–191
• Willes, Margaret. A Shakespearean botanical; Quealy, Gerit and Hasegawa-Collins, Sumié. Botanical Shakespeare. An illustrated compendium of all the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited by the world’s greatest playwright; Bennett, Jackie. Shakespeare’s gardens; Strong, Roy. The quest for Shakespeare’s garden. ANH 45(1), pp. 193–194
• Yale, Elizabeth. Sociable knowledge: natural history and the nation in early modern Britain. ANH 45(1), p. 189