Archives of natural history Volume 33
Archives of natural history Volume 33
part 1 (April 2006)
D. Jones : John Lloyd Williams (1854–1945): profile of a Snowdonian botanist: 1
W. D. I. Rolfe & C. Grigson : Stubbs’s “Drill and albino hamadryas baboon” in conjectural historical context: 18
S. Olson : Birds, including extinct species, encountered by the Malaspina Expedition on Vava’u, Tonga, in 1793: 42
J. L. Maldonado & M. Á. Puig-Samper : An unpublished eighteenth century treatise on the birds of Colonial Mexico: 53
R. E. Petit : Notes on Sowerby’s The genera of recent and fossil shells (1821–1834): 71
M. Riley : The club at the Temple Coffee House revisited: 90
J. D. Stilwell : Trilobites and Linnaeus: the first fossil reconstruction from 1759: 101
T. R. Birkhead, E. Butterworth & S. van Balen : A recently discovered seventeenth century French encyclopaedia of ornithology: 109
W. R. P. Bourne : Birds eaten by King James V of Scotland in 1525–1533, and the prices decreed by his daughter Mary Queen of Scots in 1551: 135
P. A. Morris : J. B. Nichols’ purchasing code: 140
L. C. Rookmaaker, P. A. Morris, I. E. Glenn & P. J. Mundy : The ornithological cabinet of Jean-Baptiste Bécoeur and the secret of the arsenical soap: 146
W. R. J. Dean, M. Sandwith & S. J. Milton : The bird collections of C. J. Andersson in southern Africa, 1850–1867: 159
Short notes
L. Paterson and P. G. Moore : Victorian natural scientists overlooking the Firth of Clyde: Marion Spottiswood Balfour the photographer: 172
G. Štrkalj : Professor Dart’s exhibit: the fossil ape found at Taungs, man’s nearest relative (1925) by Grafton Elliot Smith: 174
L. K. Overstreet : Wheldon & Wesley card index donated to Smithsonian Institution Libraries: 176
Book reviews : 177
part 2 (October 2006)
M. J. Y. Foley : Christopher Merrett’s Pinax rerum naturalium britannicarum (1666): annotations to what is believed to be the author’s personal copy: 191
A. Desmond & S. E. Parker : The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874): illustrated with a previously unpublished photograph: 202
M. Siviero & C. Violani : Drawings for an exacting author: illustrations from Giovanni Antonio Scopoli’s Deliciae florae et faunae insubricae: 214
S. Lotti, A. Altobelli, S. Bambi & M. Poggesi : Illustrations of the anatomical wax model collection in the “La Specola” Zoology Museum, Florence: 232
C. W. Myers & R. B. Stothers : The myth of Hylas revisited: the frog name Hyla and other commentary on Specimen medicum (1768) of J. N. Laurenti, the “father of herpetology”: 241
G. Manganelli, A. Benocci & V. Spadini : The scientific bibliography of Roberto Lawley (1818–1881) and his contribution to the study of fossil sharks: 267
L. J. Musselman : The botanical activities of George Edward Post (1838–1909): 282
H. M. Reeves : Sahagún’s “Florentine Codex”, a little known Aztecan natural history of the Valley of Mexico: 302
E. C. Dickinson, M. D. Bruce & R. J. Dowsett : Vivarium naturae or the naturalist’s miscellany (1789–1813) by George Shaw: an assessment of the dating of the parts and volumes: 322
Short notes
W. R. P. Bourne : The Scottish wildlife clearances: 344
P. G. Moore & J. A. Gibson : On the date of publication of John Robertson’s Animal life on the shores of the Clydeand Firth and potential confusion caused by three contemporary John Robertsons: 348
A. S. George : Another example of illustrating an unillustrated work: Bentham’s Flora australiensis: 351
Obituary
Alwyne Wheeler 5 October 1929–19 June 2005: Oliver Crimmen: 354
Alwyne Cooper Wheeler (1929–2005), Honorary Editor of Archives of natural history: E. Charles Nelson: 363
A. C. Wheeler : The Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. An account of its formation and activities: 366
Book reviews: 369
Indexes for volume 33 : 375