{"title":"ALLEN, David Elliston. The naturalist in Britain, a social history. Allen Lane, London. 1976. pp. xii+ 292. Price £9.00.","authors":"P. S. Green","doi":"10.3366/JSBNH.1977.8.PART_2.188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSBNH.1977.8.PART_2.188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":354095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133454040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HOARE, Michael E. The tactless philosopher, Johann Reinhold Forster 1729-1798. Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1976. pp. x, 419. Price $A15. 95","authors":"P. I. Edwards","doi":"10.3366/JSBNH.1977.8.PART_2.190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSBNH.1977.8.PART_2.190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":354095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126946244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The legend of John Phillips's \"lost fossil collection\"","authors":"J. Edmonds","doi":"10.3366/JSBNH.1977.8.2.169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSBNH.1977.8.2.169","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY In the two parts of his work on the Geology of Yorkshire John Phillips figured and briefly described a large number of Jurassic and Carboniferous Limestone fossils, many of which were new species of considerable importance. It has been widely assumed that most of these type and figured specimens were stolen and irretrievably lost when Phillips took them on one of his visits to London. The various accounts which have been given of the loss have been accompanied by much, often conflicting, circumstantial detail. The true story of the episode, based on contemporary documents, is now recounted and an assessment is made of the extent of the scientific loss actually incurred.","PeriodicalId":354095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126456126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arthur O'Shaughnessy: a poet among the Lacertidae","authors":"S. Holmes","doi":"10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.PART_1.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.PART_1.28","url":null,"abstract":"This first verse of O'Shaughnessy's Ode, from a collection of poems entitled \"Music and Moonlight\", not only establishes the mood of its haunting setting by Edward Elgar, in \"The Music Makers\", but also serves to remind zoologists, literary students and musicians of an imaginative and oddly fascinating character whose achievements in natural science and poetry can today offer grounds for curiosity and re-appraisal. Arthur O'Shaughnessy, born 1844, a nephew1 of Edward Lytton Bulwer, joined the British Museum,2 after nomination by an ex officio trustee at Bulwer's request, as a Transcriber in the Department of Printed Books in 1861. After taking an examination in Systematic Zoology he was in 1862 appointed (Junior) Assistant, Second Class, in the Department of Zoology. He seems to have been by nature retiring and something of a dreamer and was in fact reported on as nearsighted, uncoordinated and lacking in scientific fervour! So in 1864 he was transferred to the Department of Geology, which had recently acquired a new keeper who is said to have been meek as well as inexperienced. This did not last long, however, and he became firstly Professor Richard Owen's clerical assistant in Palaeontology and afterwards clerk in the Spirit Room (Reptiles and Fishes). Then, after five years, he became a Senior Assistant, Second Class and carried out curation duties and research on lizards. However, there continued to be complaints from certain of his superiors that he was not an accurate systematist (it is recorded that there","PeriodicalId":354095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125516768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Disciples' Edition of Cuvier's Règne Animal","authors":"C. F. Cowan","doi":"10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.1.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.1.32","url":null,"abstract":"SYNOPSIS The method of production of Baron Georges Cuvier's Regne Animal, third edition of 1836—1849, is discussed. The 22 volumes, two for Insectes and one for each of the nine other animal classes for the text, and eleven similar ones for the plates, were issued concurrently in 262 livraisons at unknown dates. Each livraison held text and plates for one class and some of the plates contained new material, so it is important to collate the plates in livraisons. All livraisons are here dated to within a month, and full collations are tabulated for the fourteen volumes Mammiferes, Oiseaux, Poissons, Insectes 1, 2, Crustaces and Annelides, each with its Atlas, as well as for the Prefaces and the Bibliography sections. The authorship of plates and their explanations is discussed, and is determined in detail for Insectes and Annelides. An appeal is added for information on the other four classes Reptiles, Mollusques, Arachnides and Zoophytes.","PeriodicalId":354095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History","volume":"392 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132812711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bibliography of the Diopsidae-II","authors":"J. F. Shillito","doi":"10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.1.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.1.65","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":354095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133111841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HENREY, Blanche. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800. Oxford University Press, London, etc. 3 vols. illus., col. illus. 28 cm. in case. Price £70.","authors":"V. Parry","doi":"10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.PART_1.88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.PART_1.88","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":354095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128811676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Darwin's 'American' Neighbour","authors":"Kenneth G. V. Smith, R. E. Dimick","doi":"10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.PART_1.78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.PART_1.78","url":null,"abstract":"a personal sketch' of his book A Lawyer's Life on Two Continents (Nash, 1919). This book is now a rarity and as far as we can trace the only copy in a British library is that at Cambridge University. Our notes are compiled from a copy in the possession of one of us (R.E.D.). His wife, Louisa A. Nash, had earlier recorded her impressions in an article in the Overland Monthly (Nash, 1890). Both of these accounts, although somewhat anecdotal, give an interesting view of family life in the Darwin household, of the village life of Down and the part played in it by the Darwins, and of the character of Charles Darwin himself.","PeriodicalId":354095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116647957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HARAWAY, Donna J. Crystals, fabrics and fields: metaphors of organicism in twentieth century developmental biology. Yale University Press, New York and London, 1976. pp.x + 231. Price £9.","authors":"Stuart Durant","doi":"10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.PART_1.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.PART_1.89","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":354095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131160713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sebastien Vaillant's Flora of Paris, Botanicon Parisiense, 1727","authors":"W. Tjaden","doi":"10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSBNH.1976.8.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A pathetic story in the preface of Botanicon Parisiense, reproduced in most biographies of Sebastien Vaillant and of his friend William Sherard, that Vaillant, in failing health, asked Herman Boerhaave to publish his work, is inconsistent with other statements in the preface. Sherard's correspondence in the library of the Royal Society shows the history of the work from 1718 until its publication in 1727 and reveals the story of Vaillant's alleged request as an untruth demanded by his closet friend, the physician and botanist Danty D'Isnard.","PeriodicalId":354095,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116875176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}