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Zoological Bibliography
This is dedicated to two pioneers in this field Charles Davies Sherborn 1861-1942 and Charles Wallace Richmond 1868-1932.
An occasional publication reporting on investigations into the bibliography of zoology, chiefly relating to dates of publication (especially of works issued in parts), problems of authorship, examples of cancellantia, and other bibliographical features that might have a bearing on nomenclatural problems. Since publication will be only online, most papers can be published very rapidly. Full illustration, with colour where appropriate, is preferred. Authors pay no page charges and receive a PDF/A with freedom to place this on one or more websites and to circulate this.
Publishing is arranged article by article. Volume 3 initiated the new method of publishing article by article; it offered free downloads, and immediate Open Access, and access is article (issue) by article.
All downloads are free. Volumes will be considered complete when or soon after the page count reaches 160 pages(except when a volume is made up of a series of related articles). Occasionally Supplements may be produced.
Guidelines to authors are provided HERE.
Editorial Board:
- Kraig Adler, USA [Herpetology]
- Graham Arader, USA [Antiquarian Bookseller]
- Patrice Bouchard, Canada [Entomology]
- Les Christidis, Australia [Ornithology]
- Paul Clark, United Kingdom [Crustacea]
- Alfred Gardner, USA [Mammalogy]
- Maurice Kottelat, Switzerland [Ichthyology]
- Andrea Kourgli, Austria [Zoology Librarian]
- Christopher Lyal, United Kingdom [Entomology]
- Svetlana Nikolaeva, United Kingdom [Paleontology]
- Constance Rinaldo, USA [Zoology Librarian]
- Ray Williams, United Kingdom [Parasitology; Cnidaria]
- Edward Dickinson, United Kingdom [Editor]
Further appointments may be made to represent other disciplines in zoology.
Free downloads of issues making up Volumes 1 and 2
Vol. 1
Vol.1, No. 1 (November, 2010)
Vol. 2
Vol.2, No. 4 (August, 2013)
Vols. 1 & 2: Back numbers of print edition for sale: contact Steven Gregory e-mail: sgregory.avium@ntlworld.com
Subsequent volumes (issued article by article) all currently free to download):
Vol. 3
Vol. 3. Introduction:
Vol. 3, No. 1 (October, 2014)
Vol. 3, No. 2 (October, 2014)
Vol. 3, No. 3 (November, 2014)
Vol. 3, No. 4 (November, 2014)
Vol. 3, No. 5 (November, 2015)
Vol. 3, Cover
Vol. 4, No. 1 (16 December, 2015)
Vol. 4, No. 2 (28 January, 2016)
Vol. 4, No. 3 (17 March, 2017)
Vol. 4, No. 4 (15 June 2017)
Vol. 4, No. 5 (29 December 2017)
Bousquet, Y. – Book catalogues issued for the Leipzig trade fairs and the dating of taxonomic works. Pp. 93-126.
Vol. 4, No. 6 (7 March 2018)
Vol. 4, No. 7 (5 April 2018)
Vol. 4, cover:
Vol. 5 ALCIDE D`ORBIGNY VOLUME
Vol. 5, Preface
Vol. 5, No. 1 (31 January 2017)
Vol. 5, No. 2 (28 February 2017)
Vol. 5, No. 3 (30 November 2017)
Vol. 5, No. 4 (9 March 2018)
Vol. 5, No. 7 (8 March, 2019)
Vol. 5, No. 8 (8 March, 2019)
Vol. 5, No. 9 (8 March, 2019)
Vol. 5, No. 10 (19 July, 2019)
Vol. 5, No. 11 (26 February, 2020)
Dickinson, E.C. & M. Schneider. – Authorship with in the Synopsis Avium: a correction. Pp. 413-415.
Vol. 5, cover:
Vol. 6.
Vol. 6, No. 1 (9 March 2018)
Vol. 6, No. 2 (31 August 2018)
Williams, R.B. – Correction of the spurious 1868 publication date of Thomas Hinck`s A History of the British Hydroid Zoophytes to 1869, with a list of included new taxa and nomenclatural combinations, and a bibliographical description. Pp. 3-27.
Vol. 6, No. 3 (24 October 2018)
Gouraud, C. & L. Chevrier. – Origins and dating of Baillon`s "Catalogue des Mammifères, Oiseaux, Reptiles, Poissons et Mollusques testacés marins, observés dans l`arrondissement d’Abbeville" with special regard to new taxa. Pp. 29-40.
Vol. 6, No. 4 (29 November 2018)
Williams, R.B. – Thomas Hincks’s A History of the British Marine Polyzoa: 1879 or 1880? Confirmation of publication date. Pp. 41-47.
Vol. 6, No. 5 (14 December 2018)
Williams, R.B. – Determination of the publication-date of George Johnston`s "A catalogue of the zoophytes of Berwickshire", with nomenclatural consequences for some cnidarian and bryozoan family-groups. Pp. 49-53.
Vol. 6, No. 6 (24 January 2019)
Williams, R.B. – Bibliographical descriptions and dating of original parts and consolidated volumes of H.T. Stainton`s "A manual of British Butterflies and Moths", with dating and combined order of precedence of some relevant contemporaneous literature. Pp. 55-102.
Vol. 6, No. 7 (25 February 2019)
Lee, M. & M.D Bruce – Three additional birds from the "Voyage de LaCoquille" (1822-1825). Pp. 103-112.
Vol. 6, No. 8 (10 September 2019)
Dickinson, E.C. & L. Raty – Necessary corrections to `A review of the authorship and dates of publication of birds newly described from the "Voyage de la Coquille" (1822-1825) with comments on some spellings`. Pp. 113-116.
Vol. 6, No. 9 (5 November 2019)
Reitmeyer, M. & E.C. Dickinson – Thomas Horsfield’s “Zoological Researches on Java and neighbouring islands”: plate numbers and dates of publication. Pp. 117-125.
Vol. 6, No. 10 (26 February 2020)
Lee, M. Another bird from the "Voyage de la Coquille" (1822-1825). Pp. 127-132.
Vol. 6, No. 11 (19 June 2020)
Sangster, G. The publication date of Cinclodes comechingonus Zotta & Gavio and Porphyrula georgica Pereyra. Pp 133-134.
Vol. 6. No. 12 (29 July, 2020)
Galbreath, R. & G. Aimassi.–Atti della società Italiana di scienze naturali 1859-1895 and the dates of its parts. Pp. 135-150
Vol. 6. No. 13 (20 November, 2020)
Williams, R.B. A bibliographical description and publishing history of Henry Stevenson’s and Thomas Southwell’s The Birds of Norfolk (1866 [1867]- 1890), with notes on the vernacular and scientific names. Pp. 151-200.
Cover to follow shortly.
Vol.7
Vol. 7, No. 1 (11 January, 2024)
P. Smith - Bertoni´s Mammals: An annotated interpretation of the 1939 Catálogos Sistemáticos de los Vertebrados del Paraguay. Pp. 1-122.
Vol. 8.
Vol. 8, No. 1 (15 December, 2020)
Williams, R.B. Reassessment of Henry Tibbats Stainton`s conflated lists of British Lepidoptera derived from A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths (1857, 1859) reveals an unrecorded publication. Pp. 1-13.
Vol. 8. No. 2 (24 February, 2021)
Dickinson, E.C. Richard Bowdler Sharpe’s “A monograph of the Alcedinidæ: or, family of kingfishers” 1868‐1871. Pp. 15-31.
Vol. 8. No. 3 (4 May, 2022)
Galbreath, R. Separates, preprints, and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: issues, problems and recommendations. Pp. 33-57.
Vol. 8. No. 4 (14 July, 2022)
Vol. 8. No. 5 (14 December, 2022)
Vol. 8. No. 6 (20 January, 2023)
Vol. 8. No. 7 (10 February, 2023)
Vol. 8. No. 8 (17 February, 2023)