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London
Over the past 2000 years, London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. London: A History in Maps illustrates and helps to explain the transformation using over 400 examples of maps. Side-by-side with the great, semi-official, but sanitized images of the whole city, there are the more utilitarian maps and plans of the parts--actual and envisaged--which perhaps present more than topographical records. They all have something unique to say about the time when they were created. Peter Barber's book reveals the "inside story" behind one of the world's greatest cities.
A Catalogue of Manuscripts and Drawings in the General Library of the Natural History Museum, London
This volume makes available details of the 380 collections of original manuscripts and drawings (including collections of photographs and films) in the Museum's General Library - a major resource of international importance, consulted by scholars from around the world. Among the strengths are the holdings relating to Africa (Baines, Collier, Rosevear, Scott, Sibree); to India (Ditmas, Hume, Sykes and Tonge); and to Australia (Maitland, Martens, the Port Jackson Painter, Wilkins and Yonge), Entries include full descriptions and references to the availability of more detailed finding aids.
Women Artists
Remarkable natural history artworks by women artists from the last three centuries Celebrating the work and lives of women artists spanning the last three centuries, this stunning collection showcases a selection of exquisite artworks from the unrivaled collections held in the Library of the Natural History Museum. It features specially selected artworks by women from the late 19th century onwards. Some were scientists, naturalists, and collectors, while others were the wives or daughters of scientists or were simply fascinated and enthused by the natural world. There are fine butterfly drawings by accomplished natural history illustrator Margaret Fountai≠ vivid illustrations of Indian natural, cultural, and social history by Olivia Ton≥ and detailed bird images by Elizabeth Gould, who married highly regarded ornithologist John Gould and produced more than 600 illustrations for her husband's publications. Featuring celebrated artworks and rarely-seen gems, this book serves up a visual feast of the never ending wonders of the natural world and the significant role that women have played in observing and documenting it.
Cultures of Natural History
This copiously illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history. Public interest in this lively field has been stimulated by environmental concerns and through links with the histories of art, collecting and gardening. The centrality of the development of natural history for other branches of history - medical, colonial, gender, economic, ecological - is increasingly recognized. Twenty-four specially commissioned essays cover the period from the sixteenth century, when the first institutions of natural history were created, to its late nineteenth-century transformation by practitioners of the new biological sciences. An introduction discusses novel approaches that have made this a major focus for research in cultural history. The essays, which include suggestions for further reading, offer a coherent and accessible overview of a fascinating subject. An epilogue highlights the relevance of this wide-ranging survey for current debates on museum practice, the display of ecological diversity and concerns about the environment.
Natural History Drawings
Colonel William Farquhar (1774-1839) was a British Colonial Officer who became Commandant of Malacca in 1803, a post through which he was able o indulge his interest in natural history, sending men to collect various plant and animal specimens, which he then commissioned artists to paint.
The Natural History of Sydney
On 3 November 2007, the Royal Zoological Society of NSW held its annual forum, with the topic being The natural history of Sydney. It has remained as the title of this book. The program contained the following introduction as the theme of the forum and it has remained as the theme for this book: “Sydney has a unique natural history, providing a home for iconic animals and plants while remaining a global city. It captured the imagination of prominent naturalists and inspired visits and collecting trips to the infant colony of New South Wales in the late 1790s and early to late 1800s. From these collections flowed great descriptive works detailing the new and unusual animals and plants of th...
