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Misunderstanding Monboddo on ‘Race’, Slavery and the Black Egyptian Origins of All Civilization | Journal of Scottish Philosophy
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo’s (1714–1799) contribution to Scottish Enlightenment thinking on race is regularly held to be twofold. As a Lord of Session, he supposedly defended slavery on Aristotel...
Coffee and qat on the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia – botanical, ethnobotanical and commercial observations made in Yemen 1762–1763 | Archives of Natural History
In spite of widespread consumption of coffee in Europe at the time of the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia 1761–1767, little was known of the cultivation of coffee in Yemen and of the Arabian coff...
BENTON, M. J. and SPENCER, P. S. Fossil reptiles of Great Britain. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Geological Review Series, Volume 10. Chapman & Hall, London: 1995. Pp xii, 386. Price £75.00. ISBN 0-412-62040-5. | Archives of Natural History
STEVENS, P. F. The development of biological systematics: Antoine -Laurent de Jussieu, nature, and the natural system.
LINCECUM, J. B. and PHILLIPS, E. H. (Editors) Adventures of a frontier naturalist. The life and times ofDr Gideon Lincecum. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas: 1994. Pp xxxvii, 321. Price $35.00. ISBN 0-89096-592-7. | Archives of Natural Hi
Enter keywords / phrases / DOI / ISSN / authors / ORCID / etc. Search. Close Drawer MenuOpen Drawer Menu. Archives of Natural History. Free access. Book Review. February 1996...... LINCECUM, J. B. and PHILLIPS, E. H. (Editors) Adventures of a
Birds, including extinct species, encountered by the Malaspina Expedition on Vava'u, Tonga, in 1793 | Archives of Natural History
Abstract Four drawings and a short manuscript reference from the Spanish Malaspina Expedition provide certain records of five species of birds on the island of Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga, in 1793. Th...
Scientific books and instruments for an eighteenth-century voyage around the world: Antonio Pineda and the Malaspina Expedition | Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History
Antoine Guichenot and Adenanthos (Proteaceae) specimens collected during Baudin's Australian Expedition, 1801-1803.
Three hundred years of House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) persecution in Germany | Archives of Natural History
Abstract Modernization of agriculture, economic development and population increase after the end of the Thirty Years' War caused authorities in many parts of Germany to decree the eradication of s...
BERTHON, S. and ROBINSON, A. The shape of the world. The mapping and discovery of the earth. George Philip, London: 1991. Pp 192, illustrated. Price: £16.95. ISBN: 0-540-01229-7. | Archives of Natural History
Enter keywords / phrases / DOI / ISSN / authors / ORCID / etc. Search. Close Drawer MenuOpen Drawer Menu. Archives of Natural History. Free access. Book Review. June 1992...... BERTHON, S. and ROBINSON, A. The shape of the world. The mapping and
Petrels collected by Titian Ramsay Peale in the Pacific Ocean during the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 | Archives of Natural History
The report by Titian Ramsay Peale on birds encountered during the Wilkes Expedition was withdrawn for inaccuracy when few copies had been distributed, and re-written by John Cassin. A survey of the...
Books Received | Translation and Literature
Penguin, 2017 (Penguin Modern Classics). Pb. £9.99. ISBN 9780141985862. Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de.