Book reviews: Skin: A natural history

Martin Lister’s English Spiders 1678 . Translated by Malcolm Davies & Basil Harley. Edited by John Parker & Basil Harley. Colchester, Harley Books, 1992. Pp. xv + 208, £49.95. ISBN 0-946589-27-5 Martin Lister (1638/9-1712) was one of the outstanding zoologists of the later seventeenth century. Cambridge-educated, amply-propertied, well connected - a great-uncle had been Physician in Ordinary to King Charles I and his niece was Sarah Jennings, the wife of Marlborough - he practised medicine for some years in his native Yorkshire before moving to London in 1683. Long keenly interested in natural history and already an F. R. S. of twelve years’ standing, he thereupon became active in the Society’s affairs and was elected Vice-President in 1685. Three years later the Society did him the honour of publishing the first of what were to be his four books, the Historiae Animalium Angliae. This was divided into three parts, devoted respectively to land and freshwater mollusca, marine mollusca, and spiders (broadly conceived). The last of these, the Tractatus deAraneis, has never received its proper due, as a result of remaining till now untranslated into English (a German translation did appear, but even that was as long ago as 1778). Through the initiative of a leading present-day amateur arachnologist, John R. Parker, who has also provided an excellent introduction, this deficiency has at last been repaired. The resulting volume, produced to the fine standard we have come to expect of Harley Books, has received inputs from a scholarly team almost on the scale of that which went to work on the comparable 1972 translation of Thomas Johnson’s two seventeenth-century accounts of his botanical field trips out of London.

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Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.2001.0148 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 55 (2) ◽

pp. 331-346

Author(s):

G.E. Fogg

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Human Brain ◽

Modern World ◽

Evolution Of Language ◽

The Creation

Nine book reviews in the May 2002 issue of Notes and Records : Voyages of discovery: three centuries of natural history exploration , by T. Rice, reviewed by G. E. Fogg. Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle , R. Keynes (ed.), reviewed by P. R. Grant. Enlightenment: Britain and the creation of the modern world , by R. Porter, reviewed by P. Fara. Ice blink: the tragic fate of Sir John Franklin's lost polar expedition , by S. Cookman, reviewed by G. F. Hattersley-Smith. The cogwheel brain: Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer , by D. Swade, reviewed by M. Campbell-Kelly. The symbolic species: the co-evolution of language and the human brain , by T. Deacon, reviewed by T. Briscoe. Defining features: scientific and medical portraits, 1660-2000 , by L. Jordanova, reviewed by J. Rowlinson. Against the tide: an autobiographical account of a professional outsider , by L. C. Woods, reviewed by J. T. Stuart. A passion for DNA , by J. D. Watson, reviewed by J. Postgate.

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Book Reviews : Natural History of Infectious Disease, by Sir Macfarlane Burnet, o.M., M.D., F.R.S. 3rd edition. 377 pp. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. London, 1962. £1 10s. 0d. [IA/87]

Royal Society of Health Journal ◽

10.1177/146642406308300128 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 83 (1) ◽

pp. 33-33

Keyword(s):

Infectious Disease ◽

Natural History ◽

Cambridge University ◽

History Of

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Book Reviews Rebman, J. P. , and Roberts, N. C. (Eds.). 2012. Baja California Plant Field Guide. San Diego Natural History Museum Publication and Sunbelt Publications. Inc. xx + 451 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-9162-5118-5 flexible cover, $34.95.

Florida Entomologist ◽

10.1653/024.095.0454 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 95 (4) ◽

pp. 1199-1200

Author(s):

Patti J. Anderson

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

San Diego ◽

Baja California ◽

Natural History Museum ◽

Field Guide ◽

History Museum

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Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia ◽

10.1163/22134379-90003466 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 138 (4) ◽

pp. 494-509

Author(s):

C. Dijk ◽

M.C. Ricklefs ◽

L.A. Hoedemaker ◽

S.C. Graaf van Randwijck ◽

G.J. Knaap ◽

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Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Natural History ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Kuala Lumpur ◽

Asian Studies ◽

Field Museum ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

East West

- C. van Dijk, M.C. Ricklefs, A history of modern Indonesia. C. 1300 to the present, London and Basingstoke, The MacMillan Press Ltd., 1981. xii + 335 pp. MacMillan Asian Histories Series. - L.A. Hoedemaker, S.C. Graaf van Randwijck, Handelen en denken in dienst der zending (Oestgeest 1897-1942), 2 delen, Den Haag Boekencentrum, 1981. - G.J. Knaap, Hubert Jacobs SJ, Documenta Malucensia II (1577-1606), annotated by Hubert Jacobs SJ, Monumenta Missionum Societatis Iesu volumen XXXIX, Missiones Orientalis, Rome, Jesuit Historical Institute; 1980, XXXI + 65* + 794 blz. - David S. Moyer, H. Sutherland, The making of a bureaucratic elite; The colonial transformation of the Javanese Priyayi, Asian studies association of Australia, Southeast Asia publication series no. 2, Heinemann educational books (Asia), Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, 1979, xx + 182 pp. - S.A. Niessen, Garrett Solyom, The world of the Javanese Keris, 1978, East-West Centre, Honolulu, Hawaii., Bronwen Solyom (eds.) - S.A. Niessen, Anne Leonard, Patterns of Paradise; The styles and significance of bark cloth around the world, 1980, Field museum of natural history., John Terrell (eds.) - S.A. Niessen, Kirk Endicott, Batek Negrito Religion, 1979, Oxford Clarendon Press. - J. Noorduyn, Olivier Carré, L’Islam et l’état dans le monde d’aujourd’hui, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1982. 270 p. - H.A. Poeze, Joop Morriën, Indonesië los van Holland. De CPN en de PKI in hun strijd tegen het Nederlands kolonialisme, Pegasus Amsterdam, 1982, 272 pp.

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