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The following papers, short and biographical notes, and appreciations of two recently deceased members are published in volume 36 part 2 (due in October 2009)
D. R. CALDER: The Reverend Thomas Hincks FRS (1818–1899): taxonomist of Bryozoa and Hydrozoa.
D. R. CALDER: Charles Wesley Hargitt (1852–1927): American educator and cnidarian biologist.
E. G. HANCOCK and A. S. DOUGLAS: William Hunter’s Goliath beetle, Goliathus goliatus (Linnaeus, 1771), re-visited.
M. H. LAZARUS & H. S. PARDOE: Bute’s Botanical tables: dictated by Nature.
D. G. MEDWAY: The fate of the bird specimens from Cook’s voyages possessed by Sir Joseph Banks.
M. B. NOWAK-KEMP: 150 years of changing attitudes towards zoological collections in a university museum: the case of the Thomas Bell tortoise collection in the Oxford University Museum.
R. A. G. REYES: Botany and zoology in the late seventeenth-century Philippines: the work of Georg Josef Camel SJ (1661–1706).
M. WALTERS: The identity of the birds depicted in Shaw and Miller’s Cimelia physica.
SHORT NOTES
D. Q. KING: A checklist of sources of the botanical illustrations in the Grindon Herbarium, The Manchester Museum: additional sources.
H. A. McGHIE: Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace concerning the Darwin commemorations of 1909.
OBITUARIES
Professor L. B. Holthuis (1921–2008), carcinologist and historian of natural history.
Gavin Douglas Ruthven Bridson (1936–2008), bibliographer, librarian and scholar.
Society for the Bibliography of Natural History: Founding & early members: biographical notes
R. J. CLEEVELY: Charles Davies SHERBORN: geologist & scientific bibliographer.
P. GILBERT: Alexander Cockburn TOWNSEND: librarian (British Museum (Natural History) 1930–1964) & bibliographer.
A. MOORE & F. WARR: Stanley Smyth FLOWER: professional soldier, scientific advisor, administrator, zoologist.
C. M. C. HAINES: Agnes ARBER (née Robertson): botanist, historian of natural history, biographer.
As usual abstracts for the papers will be available on the Society’s website about one month before publication.
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