Archives of natural history Volume 36

Archives of natural history Volume 36

William T. Stearn Prize 2008):146–159.

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Abstracts

D. R. CALDER: The Reverend Thomas Hincks FRS (1818–1899): taxonomist of Bryozoa and Hydrozoa: 189–217.

E. G. HANCOCK & A. S DOUGLAS: William Hunter’s Goliath beetle, Goliathus goliatus (Linnaeus, 1771), re-visited: 218–230.   

D. G. MEDWAY: The fate of the bird specimens from Cook’s voyages possessed by Sir Joseph Banks: 231–243.

D. R. CALDER: Charles Wesley Hargitt (1852–1927): American educator and cnidarian biologist: 244–261.

R. A. G. REYES: Botany and zoology in the late seventeenth-century Philippines: the work of Georg Josef Camel SJ (1661–1706): 262–276.

M. H. LAZARUS & H. S. PARDOE: Bute’s Botanical tables: dictated by Nature: 277–298.

M. B. NOWAK-KEMP: 150 years of changing attitudes towards zoological collections in a university museum: the case of the Thomas Bell tortoise collection in the Oxford University Museum: 299–315.

M. WALTERS: The identity of the birds depicted in Shaw and Miller’s Cimelia physica: 316–326.

OBITUARIES

F. F. J. M. PIETERS: Professor L. B. Holthuis (1921–2008), carcinologist and historian of natural history: 327–337.

A. P. HARVEY: Gavin Douglas Ruthven Bridson (1936–2008), bibliographer, librarian and scholar: an appreciation: 338–351.

SHORT NOTES

H. A. McGHIE: Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace concerning the Darwin commemorations of 1909: 352–354.

D. Q. KING: A checklist of sources of the botanical illustrations in the Grindon Herbarium, The Manchester Museum: additional sources: 354–356.

SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY: FOUNDING & EARLY MEMBERS: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES – 1

R. J. CLEEVELY: Charles Davies Sherborn: geologist and scientific bibliographer: 357–359.

P. GILBERT: Alexander Cockburn Townsend: librarian (British Museum (Natural History) 1930–1964) and bibliographer: 359–360.

A. M. MOORE & F. WARR: Stanley Smyth Flower: professional soldier, scientific advisor, administrator, zoologist: 361–362.

C. M. C. HAINES: Agnes Arber (née Robertson): botanist, historian of natural history, biographer: 363–364.

Book reviews: 365–366

Indexes to ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY 36: 377–380.