Naturalists and society : the culture of natural history in Britain, 1700-1900 / [edited by] David Elliston Allen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allen, David Elliston.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS724.

Collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Great Britain--History.

Natural history.

Naturalists--Great Britain--History.

Naturalists.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington USA : Ashgate, [2001]

Contents:

I Walking the swards: medical education and the rise and spread of the botanical field class (Archives of Natural History 27. London, 2000) 335

II Natural history in Britain in the eighteenth century (Archives of Natural History 20. London, 1993) 333

III James Edward Smith and the Natural History Society of Edinburgh (Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8. London, 1978) 483

IV Shells, collecting and the Victorians (First publication) 1

V Tastes and crazes (Cultures of Natural History, ed. N. Jardine, J.A. Secord and E.C. Spary. Cambridge University Press, 1996) 394

VI The Victorian fern craze: pteridomania revisited (Fern Horticulture: Past, Present and Future Perspectives, ed. Jennifer M. Ide, A. Clive Jermy and Alison M. Paul. Andover: Intercept, 1992) 9

VII Bricks without straw: reconstructing the Botanical Society of London, 1836-1856 (First publication) 1

VIII The women members of the Botanical Society of London, 1836-1856 (British Journal for the History of Science 13. Chalfont St. Giles, 1980) 240

IX The struggle for specialist journals: natural history in the British periodicals market in the first half of the nineteenth century (Archives of Natural History 23. London, 1996) 107

X The early professionals in British natural history (From Linnaeus to Darwin: Commentaries on the History of Biology and Geology, ed. Alwyne Wheeler and James H. Price. London, 1985) 1

XI On parallel lines: natural history and biology from the late Victorian period (Archives of Natural History 25. London, 1998) 361

XII The biological societies of London 1870-1914: their interrelations and their responses to change (The Linnean 4. London, 1988) 23

XIII Changing attitudes to nature conservation: the botanical perspective (Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 32. London, 1987) 203

XIV The lost limb: geology and natural history (Images of the Earth: Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences, ed. Ludmilla Jordanova and Roy Porter. Chalfont St. Giles, 1997 (2nd edition)) 203

XV The natural history society in Britain through the years (Archives of Natural History 14. London, 1987) 243

XVI Naturalists in Britain: some tasks for the historian (Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8. London, 1977) 91

XVII J.F.M. Dovaston, an overlooked pioneer of field ornithology (Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 4. London, 1967) 277

XVIII The plagiarisms of Thomas Henry Cooper (Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 9. London, 1979) 275

XIX The botanical family of Samuel Butler (Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 9. London, 1979) 133

XX C.C. Babington, Cambridge botany and the taxonomy of British flowering plants (Nature in Cambridgeshire no. 41. Cambridge, 1999) 2

XXI The discoveries of Druce (Scottish Naturalist. Kilbarchan, 1986) 175.

Notes:

Reprints of articles originally published in various journals from 1856-2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0860788636

OCLC:

46685420