The ''Archives of Natural History'' (formerly the ''Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History'') is a peer-reviewed

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

and the official journal of the

Society for the History of Natural History The Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH) is an international society for everyone who is interested in natural history in the broadest sense. This includes botany, zoology and geology as well as natural history collections, exploration ...

. It publishes papers on the history and bibliography of natural history in its broadest sense, and in all periods and all cultures. This includes

botany Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek w ...

geology Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other astronomical objects, the features or rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Ea ...

, palaeontology and

zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...

, the lives of naturalists, their publications, correspondence and collections, and the institutions and societies to which they belong. Bibliographical papers concerned with the study of rare books, manuscripts and illustrative material, and analytical and enumerative bibliographies are also published. The ''Archives of Natural History'' was established in 1936 as the ''Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History'', adopting its current title of ''Archives of Natural History'' in 1981. The honorary editor, from June 2017 until September 2020, was Herman Reichenbach. ''Archives of Natural History'' has been published for the Society by Edinburgh University Press since 2008.

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