Archives of natural history Volume 31

Archives of natural history Volume 31

part 1 (April 2004)

C. H. Smith: Further additions to the bibliography of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913): 1

R. L. Hodgkinson & J. E. Whittaker: Edward Heron-Allen FRS (1861–1943): a review of his scientific career, with an annotated bibliography of his foraminiferal publications: 6

M. J. M. Christenhusz: The hortus siccus (1566) of Petrus Cadé: a description of the oldest known collection of dried plants made in the Low Countries: 30

S. L. Long & S. K. Donovan: A relic of Lucas Barrett’s last dive (1862): 44

T. R. Birkhead, K. Schulze-Hagen & R. Kinzelbach: Domestication of the canary, Serinus canaria – the change from green to yellow: 50

J. P. Hume & A. S. Cheke: The white dodo of Réunion Island: unravelling a scientific and historical myth: 57

H. W. Lack: An annotated catalogue of the printed illustrations by Franz Bauer (1758–1840): 80

A. Moore: “Your lordship’s most obliged servant”: letters from Louis Fraser to the thirteenth Earl of Derby, 1840 to 1851: 102

M. Walters: Birds depicted in a folio of eighteenth century water-colours by Sarah Stone: 123

H. M. Reeves, F.-M. Gagnon & C. S. Houston: “Codex canadiensis”, an early illustrated manuscript of Canadian natural history: 150

Short notes

J. Edmondson: Liverpool Botanic Garden’s library catalogues: 167

E. C. Dickinson: Confirmation of the date of description of a broadbill (Calyptomena, Aves) published in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 168

Obituary: Gordon Chenoweth Sauer MD (1921–2003) [by Ann Datta]: 170

Book reviews: 175

part 2 (October 2004)

P. Anker: The economy of nature in the botany of Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712): 191

Hiroshi Kajihara: Usamaro Takakura (1867–1944), Japanese pioneer nemertean researcher: 208

J. Loveland: Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon’s Histoire naturelle in English, 1775–1815: 214

J. J. Liston & L. F. Noè: The tail of the Jurassic fish Leedsichthys problematicus (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii) collected by Alfred Nicholson Leeds – an example of the importance of historical records in palaeontology: 236

L. J. Pigott: Silvester Diggles (1817–1880), Australian ornithologist: 253

M. Glaubrecht & M. Kotrba: Alfred Russel Wallace’s discovery of “curious horned flies” and the aftermath: 275

G. R. Graves: Avian commensals in Colonial America: when did Chaetura pelagica become the chimney swift?: 300

D. L. Hawksworth: Miles J. Berkeley’s lichenological interests: 308

K. A. James: “Humbly dedicated”: Petiver and the audience for natural history in early eighteenth-century Britain: 318

D. L. Opitz: “Behind folding shutters in Whittingehame House”: Alice Blanche Balfour (1850–1936) and amateur natural history: 330

Short notes

R. M. Peck: Audubon drawings discovered: 349

J. Cain: Missing items from published bibliographies for George Gaylord Simpson: 353

D. E. Allen: An 1861 instance of “painting one’s Bentham”: 356

M. J. M. Christenhusz: The hortus siccus (1566) of Petrus Cadé: an amendment to Archives of natural history 31 (1): 358

Book reviews: 359

Indexes to volume 31: 379

Referees for volume 31: 382