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Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Technology NEWS WATCH; Views of Nature Before Darwin Jumped Into the Debate By SHELLY FREIERMAN Published: New York Times, September 21, 2000: front page “Circuits” section, Thursday A Romantic Natural History, maintained … Continue reading
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B. Ashton Nichols
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: As Author: Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), part of the Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters series. Series Editor, Marilyn Gaull. Nominated for the John Burroughs Medal and the American Publishers Prose Prize (a … Continue reading
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Baird’s Report to Dickinson College as Curator of Museum (1846)
Baird reported annually to the College on the status of the museum’s growing collection. His 1846 report lists recent acquisitions and looks forward to the day when Baird’s own remarkable bird collection will become part of the Dickinson College museum … Continue reading
Bibliography
[Click to go to each letter of the alphabet] a–b–c–d–e–f–g–h–i–j–k–l–m–n–o–p–q–r–s–t–u–v–w–x–y–z . . . . . .A Romantic Natural History Bibliography (Updated: 327 entries as of 9/2013) A Abernethy, John. An Enquiry into the Probability and Rationality … Continue reading
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Coleridge on Plants and Animals in Anima Poetae
Love, a myrtle wand, is transformed by the Aaron touch of jealousy into a serpent so vast as to swallow up every other stinging woe and make us mourn the exchange. (1) Human happiness, like the aloe, is a flower … Continue reading
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Oliver Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature
Engravings like these posed problems for the theory of separate creation for at least two reasons. They suggested that biological flora and fauna were much more diverse and widespread than had been previously imagined, and they pointed out remarkable similarities … Continue reading
Jardine’s The Natural History of Monkeys (1833)
Sir William Jardine devoted an entire volume to the animals he described as approaching “nearest to man in structure, and consequently in actions” (29). He noted the impact of the mere sight of these creatures on a wide range of … Continue reading
Polypus (hydra) and the boundary between plant and animal
The polypus, or hydra, generated much comment among natural historians because of its apparent existence on the boundary between plant and animal species, because of its unique reproductive behavior, and because of the forms of “sensation” it seemed to manifest. … Continue reading
The Frog-Fish from Surinam (1776)
This page indicates the way Londoners (and American colonists) acquired knowledge of natural history in 1776. The article in The Universal Magazine headlines “Description of the Frog-Fish of Surinam. Illustrated with an accurate Engraving of that extraordinary Animal.” The text reveals confused … Continue reading
Global Exploration and New Forms of Nature
Here is Chief Mouina of the Taeeh tribe (left), drawn by Captain David Porter in his Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean in the Years 1812, 1813, and 1814. Mouina is remarkable, among other things, for … Continue reading