Column
Columns by Shigeru Kuratani |
Translated by Douglas Sipp and Hazuki Hiraga |
2015 |
1. Notes from Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle |
2. Swallowtail variants |
3. The real and the fake |
4. Riddles are everywhere |
5. The Secret Life of Plants |
6. A great big lovable caterpillar |
2013 |
1. Seeing weevils |
2. Summer, green as a stinkbug |
4. Nature, here and now |
5. A dinosaur mural to remember |
6. The scientific death instinct |
2012 |
1. Birding on Port Island: The occupation |
2. On the Dead Sea |
3. Evolution and the receptive eye |
4. A Taste of Insect Atlas |
5. Ghost in the shell |
6. Enjoying entomological atlases - Part 2 |
2011 |
2. Prints along the Seine |
3. My bibliomania – what lies ahead |
4. Bouillabaisse in the mist |
5. Romanoff, Romanoff – How books find their homes |
6. The much-loved min-min zemi |
2010 |
2. The Silence of the Moths |
3. In search of saturnids |
4. M's treasure, or just some awful bug? |
5. The city as a specimen |
6. Plein-air bookselling along the Seine |
2009 |
1. Haeckel's Dream : Anthropogenie Reference:" The evolution of man : a popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogeny Vol.1 & 2" |
2. On the pleasures of reprints |
4. Science and worldviews |
5. Inherit the Wind :The struggle over Darwin |
6. Malta Time |
2007 |
1. Forgotten anatomy Reference:”Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbelthiere : mit Berücksichtung der Wirbellosen” ”Handbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbeltiere” |
2. The Evolution and Development of Comparative Embryology: Oscar Hertwig and the Modern Age Reference:”Handbuch der vergleichenden und experimentellen Entwickelungslehre der Wirbeltiere” |
3. Richard Owen's Catalogues - An Enduring Legacy Reference:”Descriptive Catalogue of the Osteological Series contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England” |
4. My cyclostome library |
5. The Internet - The pathos of information |
6. My booksman's Holidays |
2006 |
3. Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere Reference:”Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere” |
4. Ramón y Cajal,la estrella de España Reference:”Histology of the Nervous System of Man and Vertebrates Vols.1 & 2” |
5. J. Henri Fabre :My Souvenirs entomologiques Reference:”Souveniers entomologiques Vol.1-10” |
6. Saturnid Vagaries Reference:”Souveniers entomologiques Vol.1-10” |
2005 |
1. Resolving the avian form:At the border between science and natural history Reference:”Bird of America(Original title:AUDUBON'S Birds of America.)” |
2. The Power of the Picture Book: Fritz Müller's Comparative Embryology Reference:”Facts and Arguments for Darwin” |
3. Recapitulation: Yes or No? Revisiting von Baer Reference:”Über Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere.” |
4. Curves that refuse to be copied: The visual delights of embryology Reference:”Contributions to embryology” |