George Shaw, who produced the first description of the animal in the Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799, stated that it was impossible not to entertain doubts as to its genuine nature, and Robert Knox believed it might have been produced by some Asian taxidermist.

George Shaw, who produced the first description of the animal in the Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799, even took a pair of scissors to the dried skin to check for stitches.

Image: ShawNaturalists MiscellanyAchilles. jpg | George Shaw and Frederick Polydore NodderThe Naturalist's Miscellany 1789-1813

* 1789-1813-George Shaw commences The Naturalist's Miscellany or Coloured Figures Of Natural Objects ; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature

He was among the first scientists to examine a platypus and published the first scientific description of it in The Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799.

Nodder illustrated George Shaw's periodical The Naturalist's Miscellany.

Among his numerous works may be mentioned Illustrated Natural History ( 1853 ), Animal Traits and Characteristics ( 1860 ), Common Objects of the Sea Shore ( 1857 ), The Uncivilized Races, or Natural History of Man ( 1870 ), Out of Doors ( 1874 ) ( a book that was quoted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes story " The Adventure of the Lion's Mane "), Field Naturalist's Handbook ( with T. Wood ) ( 1879 – 80 ), books on gymnastics, sport, etc., and an edition of White's Selborne.

He also produced a second series of Zoological Illustrations ( 1832 – 33 ), three volumes of Jardine's Naturalist's Library, and eleven volumes of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia ; he had signed a contract with Longman to produce fourteen illustrated volumes of 300 pages in this series, one to be produced quarterly.

The zoologist William Alexander Forbes, who died on an expedition to West Africa in 1883, was H. O. Forbes's friend and fellow-classmate at the University of Edinburgh ; the book A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago is dedicated to him.

While recovering from a childhood bout of appendicitis, Punnett became acquainted with Jardine's Naturalist's Library and developed an interest in natural history.

He had brought natural history books with him, including a copy of A Naturalist's Companion by George Graves, bought in August in anticipation of seeing the seaside, and he borrowed similar books from the library.

Along with better than 400 scholarly articles, Barbour wrote several books including the autobiographical Naturalist at Large ( 1943 ), Naturalist in Cuba ( 1945 ), A Naturalist's Scrapbook ( 1946 ), and That Vanishing Eden ( 1944 ), which explores the natural world of a remote, undeveloped Florida.

Jardine made natural history available to all levels of Victorian society by editing and issuing the hugely popular forty volumes of The Naturalist's Library ( 1833-1843 ).

A Civil War Treasury: Being a Miscellany of Arms and Artillery, Facts and Figures, Legends and Lore, Muses and Minstrels, Personalities and People.

Volume One of a Miscellany of Natural History, published in 1833, was also partly prepared by Lauder.

* The Naturalist ’ s Repository, or Miscellany of Exotic Natural History Exhibiting Rare and Beautiful Specimens of Foreign Birds, Insects, Shells, Quadrupeds, Fish and Marine Productions.

Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming ( 1576 ) and Stanley ( 1665 ) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποιϰίλης Ἱοτορίας (" Varia Historia ") Chicago, 1995 ; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus ' " Varia Historia ", 1997 ; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library.

His books of poetry include Poems 1913 and 1914 ( 1914 ); Poems Translated from the French ( 1914 ); Three Poems ( 1916 ); The Barn ( 1916 ); The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill ; Stane Street ; The Gods of the World Beneath, ( 1916 ); The Harbingers ( 1916 ); Pastorals ( 1916 ); The Waggoner and Other Poems ( 1920 ); The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War ( 1922 ); Old Homes ( 1922 ); To Nature: New Poems ( 1923 ); Dead Letters ( 1923 ); Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative ( 1925 ); Japanese Garland ( 1928 ); Retreat ( 1928 ); Winter Nights: A Reminiscence ( 1928 ); Near and Far: New Poems ( 1929 ); A Summer's Fancy ( 1930 ); To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials ( 1931 ); Constantia and Francis: An Autumn Evening, ( 1931 ); Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems, ( 1932 ); Choice or Chance: New Poems ( 1934 ); Verses: To H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, ( 1936 ); An Elegy and Other Poems ( 1937 ); On Several Occasions ( 1938 ); Poems, 1930-1940 ( 1940 ); Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ); After the Bombing, and Other Short Poems ( 1949 ); Eastward: A Selection of Verses Original and Translated ( 1950 ); Records of Friendship ( 1950 ); A Hong Kong House ( 1959 ); Poems on Japan ( 1967 ).

Miscellany ( founded in 1895 ; one of Ireland's oldest magazines ), the film journal Trinity Film Review ( TFR ) and the literary Icarus.

In 1826 Barham first contributed to Blackwood's Magazine ; and in 1837 he began to furnish to a recently-initiated magazine, Bentley's Miscellany, the series of tales ( most of them metrical, some in prose ) known as The Ingoldsby Legends.

There is a story ( related in the Miscellany ) that at a conference Littlewood met a German mathematician who said he was most interested to discover that Littlewood really existed, as he had always assumed that Littlewood was a name used by Hardy for lesser work which he did not want to put out under his own name ; Littlewood apparently roared with laughter.

* F. L. Lucas, " The Prince of Court-Poets ", an essay on Ronsard in Studies French and English ( London, 1934 ), pp. 76-114 ; revised edition 1950 ; reprinted in The Cassell Miscellany ( London, 1958 ).

He continued to write for Blackwood ; he produced for Archibald Constable's Miscellany Volume XXIII in 1828 a controversial Life of Robert Burns.

In 1729 Dodsley published his first work, Servitude: a Poem written by a Footman, with a preface and postscript ascribed to Daniel Defoe ; and a collection of short poems, A Muse in Livery, or the Footman's Miscellany, was published by subscription in 1732, Dodsley's patrons comprising many persons of high rank.

* 1704: The Campaign by Joseph Addison ; Miscellany Poems by William Wycherley

There he remained for four years, learning something of the art of poetry from his patron ; some of the poems he contributed later ( 1555 ) to Nicholas Grimald's and Richard Tottel's collection, Songes and Sonettes ( known more often as Tottel's Miscellany ), may well date from this early period.

AB Grimaldi ), printed 1883 ; and Edward Arber's reprint of Tottel's Miscellany.

English collections of erotic verse by various hands, include the Drollery collections of the 17th century ; Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1698 – 1720 ); the Roxburghe Ballads ; Bishop Percy's Folio ; The Musical Miscellany ; National Ballad and Song: Merry Songs and Ballads Prior to the Year AD 1800 ( 1895-7 ) edited by J. S. Farmer ; the three volume Poetica Erotica ( 1921 ) and its more obscene supplement the Immortalia ( 1927 ) both edited by T. R. Smith.

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We find him connected with Jasper Heywood ; as a writer of " sonnets " he contributed to Tottel's Miscellany, and in 1560 he composed, in company with Sackville, the earliest English tragedy, Gorboduc, which was performed before Elizabeth I in the Inner Temple on 18 January 1561.

During this period Sparks founded the Unitarian Miscellany and Christian Monitor ( 1821 ), a monthly, and edited its first three volumes ; he was chaplain of the United States House of Representatives from 1821 to 1823 ; and he contributed to the National Intelligencer and other periodicals.

From 1840 to 1842 he edited Bentley's Miscellany, from 1842 to 1853, Ainsworth's Magazine and subsequently The New Monthly Magazine.

* Christian Miscellany 1 ( 1792 ): 209 – 212.

* C. I. Hamilton, " Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October – November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty, in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, ( London: Navy Records Society, London, 1984 ).

The follow-up book, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics ( 1981 – 2011 ) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany was released on November 22, 2011.

* Accounts of the Comptroller, Sir Duncan Forestar, 1495 – 1499, Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, vol.

* C. Collyer, ‘ The Rockinghams and Yorkshire politics, 1742 – 61 ’, The Thoresby Miscellany, 12, Thoresby Society, 41 ( 1954 ), pp. 352 – 82.

" The Letters of Henry St. John to the Earl of Orrery, 1709 – 1711 " Camden Miscellany, vol.

" Letters of Bolingbroke to the Earl of Orrery, 1712 – 13 ," Camden Miscellany, Vol.

* Juvenile Miscellany, a children's periodical ( editor, 1826 – 1834 )

* The Zoological Miscellany ( 1814 – 1817 )

* Richard Bentley ( publisher ) ( 1794 – 1871 ), English printer and publisher of Bentley's Miscellany

* 1557 – Publication of Tottel's Miscellany.

Gaston Paris has proved indeed that the original was composed in England in the 12th century ( An English Miscellany presented to Dr. Furnivall in Honour of his Seventy-fifth Birthday, Oxford, 1901, 386 – 394 ).

) A Book of Good Faith – Montaigne: A Miscellany of Passages ( 1938 )

In Hanns Eisler: A Miscellany, edited by David Blake, 103 – 32.

Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, v. 62 ( Boston, 1857 ), pp. 27 – 54 ( full text accessible through Google Book Search )