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More information on Alfred Waterhouse

Alfred Waterhouse and the Natural History Museum

Mark Girouard

Paperback, 210 x 200 mm
64 pp, 1990, reprint May 1999
0 565 09135 2, £9.95
Illustrated in colour and black and white

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ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 1 Publications of 1982, Published 1985
Volume2 Publications of 1983, Published 1986
Volume3 Publications of 1984, Published 1987
Volume4 Publications of 1985, Published 1990
Volume5 Publications of 1986, Published 1991
Volume6 Publications of 1987, Published 1993

£12.00 each (incl. postage)

Available from Library and Information Services, the Natural History Museum

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Annual Report for Science

Free

Available from Press Office, The Natural History Museum

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The Art and Science of William Bartram

Hardback, 230 x 305 mm
276 pp, June 2007
Illustrations: colour throughout,
ISBN 13: 987 0 271 02914 6
, £30.00

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ART SERIES

A series of books that brings to light, often for the first time, the artistically and scientifically fascinating painting and drawing collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Each book introduces pioneer artists whose names have until now been undeservedly little known. With splendid colour plates and a readable and scholarly commentary, published titles include:

Arthur Harry Church: The Anatomy of Flowers
Ferdinand Bauer: The Nature of Discovery
John Abbot: Birds, Butterflies and Other Wonders
Sarah Stone: Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds
William MacGillivray: Creatures of Air, Land and Sea

Forthcoming titles:
Franz Bauer

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Arthur Harry Church: The Anatomy of Flowers

David Mabberley

Hardback, 290 x 230 mm
128 pp,
September 2000
100 illustrations, 60 in colour
1 85894 116 4, £29.95

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Banks/Cook Portfolio

Facsimile archival treasures including:
Intaglio map 510 x 355 mm
Chart 560 x 545 mm
Letter 455 x 300 mm
3 prints 510 x 355 mm

Available from Hill House Publishers

Book of historical essays:
Edited by Pam Gilbert
on Banks by Harold Carter and on Cook by Lt Cdr ACF David
390 x 270 mm
110 pp, 1990
0 947352 06 0, £490

Available from Hill House Publishers

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BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) COLLECTIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMENS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE ENDEAVOUR VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN COOK, 1768-1771

Contains around 1,000 botanical specimens, over 300 zoological and over 1,500 botanical illustrations

Microfiche
38 colour and 18 monochrome fiche
Parts of the collection can be purchased separately
£1,300

Available from Chadwyck-Healey

The catalogue is available in three parts as follows:
Part 1 Botany: Australia

Clothbound, 254 x 178 mm
183 pp, 1985
0 930466 92 6 , £62.00

Available from Chadwyck-Healey

Part 2 Botany: Brazil, Java, Madeira, New Zealand, Society Islands and Tierra del Fuego
Clothbound, 254 x 178 mm
200 pp, 1987
0 930466 93 4, £62.00

Available from Chadwyck-Healey

Part 3 Zoology
Clothbound, 254 x 178 mm
172 pp, 1988
0 930466 98 5, £62.00

Available from Chadwyck-Healey

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BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) ENTOMOLOGICAL LITERATURE, 1800-1864

Pamela Gilbert (Ed)

1,800 nineteenth-century monographs from the most comprehensive natural history library in the world.

Complete Microfiche Collection
6,003 microfiche
£19,900

Available from Chadwyck-Healey

Guide
Entomological Literature, 1800-1864.
Guide to the Microfiche Edition
0 85964 218 6, £35.00

Available from Chadwyck-Healey

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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: HISTORICAL SERIES

Volumes 1 to 19
2 parts per volume
All parts available except Volume 4, part 2
Various prices

Available from Library and Information Services, the Natural History Museum

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A Catalogue of Manuscripts and Drawings in the General Library of the Natural History Museum, London

John C Thackray

Hardback, 244 x 186 mm
126 + xiii pp, 1995
0 7201 2291 0, £95.00

Available from Mansell Publishing Ltd

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A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Entomology Library of the Natural History Museum, London

Julie M V Harvey, Pamela Gilbert and Kathy S Martin

Hardback, 244 x 186 mm
251 + xvi pp, 1996
4 colour plates
0 7201 2290 2, £95.00

Available from Mansell Publishing Ltd

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A Catalogue of Portraits, Paintings and Sculpture at the Natural History Museum, London

John C Thackray

Hardback, 244 x 186 mm
70 + xii pp +131 half-tone plates, 1995
0 7201 2289 9, £95.00

Available from Mansell Publishing Ltd

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The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876, A Visual Index (2nd edition)

Eileen V Brunton

Wiro bound, 210 x 295 mm
243 pp, November 2004
0 565 09191 3, £25.00

Available from Library and Information Services, the Natural History Museum

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Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists

Ray Desmond

Hardback
826 pp, January 1994
0 85066 843 3, £224

Available from Taylor & Francis

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Discovery of Evolution

The Discovery of Evolution (Second edition)

David Young

Hardback
352 pp, July 2007
978 0 521 68746 1, £65

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EARLY AMERICAN HERBARIA AND RELATED DRAWINGS FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)

Five American herbaria reproduced on microfiche available separately or as a single collection.

William Bartram Herbarium
2 colour and 3 monochrome microfiche
£78.00

Available from Chadwyck-Healey

Mark Catesby Specimens in the Samuel Dale Herbarium
2 monochrome microfiche
£21.00

Available from Chadwyck-Healey

John Leonard Riddell Herbarium
4 monochrome microfiche
£42.00

Available from Chadwyck-Healey

Thomas Walter Herbarium
2 monochrome microfiche
£21.00

Available from Chadwyck-Healey

William Young Herbarium
2 colour and 2 monochrome microfiche
£68.00

Available from Chadwyck-Healey

Complete Microfiche Collection
4 colour and 13 monochrome microfiche
£200.00

Available from Chadwyck-Healey

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More information on Evolution

Evolution (2nd edition)

Colin Patterson

Hardback/Paperback, 246 x 189 mm
166 pp, 1998
Hardback: 0 565 09134 4, £12.00
Paperback: 0 565 09133 6, £12.00

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Ferdinand Bauer: The Australian Natural History Drawings

M J Norst

Paperback, 276 x 219 mm
120 pp, 1989
Colour and black and white illustrations
0 11 310037 X, £9.95

Available from The Stationery Office

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More information on Bauer

Ferdinand Bauer: The Nature of Discovery

David Mabberley

Hardback, 290 x 230 mm
128 pp, November 1999
1 85894 087 7, £29.95

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More information on Footsteps

Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon

Sandra Knapp

Hardback, 225 x 180 mm
128 pp, September 1999
0 565 09143 3, £12.00

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More information on Gilded Canopy

The Gilded Canopy: Botanical Ceiling Panels of the Natural History Museum

Sandra Knapp and Bob Press


Hardback with jacket, 171 x 216 mm
168 pp, 21 November 2005
colour throughout
0 565 09198 0, £15.00

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A Guide to the Official Archives of the Natural History Museum, London

John C Thackray

Hardback, 252 x 190 mm
174 + xix pp, 1998
0 901 843 08 3, £25.00

Available from The Society for the History of Natural History

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More information on Herbarium Linnaeanum

Herbarium Linnaeanum CD ROM
The Linnaean Collection of the Herbarium of Moscow State University: Digital Images, Comments, Historical Review

Sergey Balandin, Ivan Gubanov, Charles Jarvis, Sergey Majorov, Sergey Simonov, Dmitry Sokoloff and Sergey Sukhov

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Published by Dehlia Co Ltd, Moscow
September 2001
5 86476 174 5, £49.99

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The Hunterian Lectures in Comparative Anatomy May and June 1837 - Richard Owen

Phillip Reid Sloan (Ed)

Hardback/paperback, 240 x 155 mm
338 pp, 1992
Illustrated in black and white
Hardback: 0 11 310006 X, £37.50
Paperback: 0 11 310007 8, £7.50

Available from The Stationery Office

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The Human Story

The Human Story

Charles Lockwood

Paperback, 192 x 253 mm
112 pp, October 2007
Colour illustrations throughout
Paperback: 978 0 565 09214 6, £9.99

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More information on Images

Images from Nature: Drawings and Paintings from the Library of the Natural History Museum

Introduction: Christopher Mills

Paperback, 200 x 210 mm
112 pp, 1998
0 565 09029 1, £12.95

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More information on Abbot

John Abbot: Birds, Butterflies and Other Wonders

Pamela Gilbert

Hardback, 290 x 230 mm
128 pp, 1998
100 illustrations, 60 in colour
1 85894 064 8, £29.95

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John Gould in Australia: Letters and Drawings

Ann Datta

Hardback, 284 x 209 mm
502 pp + xiv, 1997
0 522 84780 3, £55.00

Available from CSIRO Publishing

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The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A Selection, 1768-1820

Neil Chambers (Ed)

Hardback, 248 x 152 mm
200 pp, December 2000
1 86094 204 0, £33.00

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Life and Earth Sciences Collections: Curatorial Policies and Collections Management Procedures

297 x 210 mm
35 pp, January 1988
Available free

Available from Department of Entomology, the Natural History Museum

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More information on Life through a lens

Life Through a Lens:
Photographs from the Natural History Museum 1880-1950

Susan Snell and Polly Tucker
Foreword by David Bellamy

Hardback, 230 x 212 mm
112 pp, 27 October 2003
0565091867, £15.00

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Manuscripts and Drawings in the Ornithology and Rothschild Libraries of The Natural History Museum

Effie Warr

January 1997
0 9522886 13, £16.00

Available from British Ornithologists' Club

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The Natural History Museum at South Kensington:
A History of the Museum 1753-198
0

William T Stearn

Paperback, 235 x 156 mm
414 + xxiii,
Published 1981, Reprint July 1998, Reprint 2001
0 565 09030 5, £30.00

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More information on Nature's Treasurehouse

The Natural History Museum: Nature's Treasurehouse

John Thackray and Bob Press

Paperback, 234 x 154 mm
144 pp, November 2001, reprinted with corrections 2004
0 565 09164 6, £11.00

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The Natural History Museum Library Serials

Published twice a year in January and July
7 microfiche
£25.00

Available from Library and Information Services, the Natural History Museum

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More information on Peixes

Peixes do Río Negro/Fishes of the Río Negro

Mônica de Toledo-Riza Ragazzo

Hardback
517 pp, 2002
85 314 0633 1
Portuguese and English parallel text

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More information on Potted Histories

Potted Histories: An Artistic Voyage through Plant Exploration

Sandra Knapp

Hardback
336 pp, October 2003
1 902686 28 4, £45.00

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Richard Owen Commemoration: Three Studies

Jacob W Gruber and John C Thackray

Hardback, 245 x 180 mm
188 pp, 1992
0 11 310008 6, £14.95

Available from The Stationery Office

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More information on Stone

Sarah Stone: Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds

Christine E Jackson

Hardback, 290 x 230 mm
160 pp, 1998
100 illustrations, 60 in colour
1 85894 063 X, £29.95

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Surviving Antarctica

Surviving Antarctica

David N. Thomas
Foreword by Ray Mears

Hardback, 228 x 273 mm
96 pp, May 2007
Colour illustrations throughout
978 0 565 09217 7, £9.99

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More information on Terracotta Designs

The Terracotta Designs of Alfred Waterhouse

Colin Cunningham

Paperback, 279 x 217 mm
192 pp, December 2000
0 471 48949 2, £34.95

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Triennial Report 1990-1993

Free

Available from Press Office, the Natural History Museum

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More information on MacGillivray

William MacGillivray: Creatures of Air, Land and Sea

Robert Ralph

Hardback/Paperback, 290 x 230 mm
128 pp, September 1999
100 illustrations, 60 in colour
1 85894 088 5 (hb), £29.95
1 85894 100 8 (pb), £9.95 (normal rrp £29.95)

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