Reviews
2007
'Evolution Myths': Review of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Vol. 14 and 15, together with Peckham (ed.) Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species: a variorum edition. Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. No. 5424. 16 March 2007: 3–4.
Review of Brian Ogilvie The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. No. 5418. 2 Feb 2007: 27.
2006
Review of Felix Driver & Luciana Martins Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire. Isis, 97 (4), December 2006: 749.
Steven Freer (ed.) Linnaeus’ Philosophia Botanica. Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement, No. 5373, 24 March: 3–4.
Nancy E. Hoffmann and John C. Van Horne (eds.) America’s Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram 1699–1777. Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement, No. 5368, 17 February: 27.
2005
Martin Brookes Extreme Measures: the dark visions and bright ideas of Francis Galton. Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. No. 5321, 25 March: 29.
2004
Marek Kohn A Reason for Everything: Evolution and the English Imagination. Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement, No. 5305, 3 December: 12.
Frank N. Egerton Hewett Cottrell Watson: Victorian plant ecologist and evolutionist. Reviewed in Journal of the History of Biology, 37: 393–395.
Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Vol. II., ed. Home et al. Reviewed in British Journal for the History of Science. Vol. 37, No. 133, June 2004: 217-219.
Martin Fichman Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture. Reviewed in Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 79, No. 2: 196.
David E. Allen, Naturalists and Society. Reviewed in British Journal for the History of Science. Vol. 37, No. 132, March 2004: 108–110.
John and Mary Gribbin Fitzroy and Peter Nichols Evolution’s Captain. Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5268, 19 March 2004: 32.
2003
Burkhardt et al. The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (vols. 11, 12 & 13). Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5251, 21 November 2003: 3–4.
Michael T. Ghiselin and Alan E. Leviton (eds.) Cultures and Institutions of Natural History. Reviewed in Journal of the History of Earth Sciences Society, Vol. 21, no.2: 218–219.
Suzanne Le-May Sheffield Revealing New Worlds: Three Victorian Women Naturalists. Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5211, 14 February 2003: 27.
2002
Peter H Hoffenberg An Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War. Reviewed in Metascience, Vol. 11, No. 3: 378–381.
SM Walters and EA Stow Darwin’s Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796–1861. Reviewed in Metascience, Vol. 11, No. 3: 426–429.
James E. Strick Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian debates over spontaneous generation. Reviewed in Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 77, No. 1, March 2002: 43–44.
2001
Randal Keynes Annie’s Box: Charles Darwin, his Daughter and Human Evolution. Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5131, 3 August 2001: 10.
2000
Andrew Brown The Darwin Wars. Reviewed in Science and Public Policy, Vol. 27, February 2000.
Home, et al. (eds.) Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller. Volume 1: 1840–1859). Metascience, vol. 9, No. 1: 76–85.
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