Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837

Tim Fulford is Professor of English at de Montfort University. His publications include Experimentalism in Wordsworth's later Poetry: Dialogues with the Dead (2023) Robert Southey, Lives of Labouring-class Poets, ed. Tim Fulford (2023) and Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley and Rise and Progress of Methodism (2022).

• Volume 2. The Natural WorldGeneral IntroductionVolume 2 IntroductionPart 1. Botany and Zoology1. William Withering, A Botanical Arrangement of all the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain, 2 vols (Birmingham: printed by M. Swinney, for T. Cadel and P. Elmsley and G. Robinson, London, 1776), vol. I, pp. vii-xlvi. 2. Henry Smeathman, ‘Some Account of the Termites, Which are Found in Africa and Other Hot Climates’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 71 (1781), pp. 139-97.3. Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (London: T. Bensley for B. White and Son, 1789), pp. 23-28.4. William Bartram, Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians (Philadelphia: James and Johnson, 1791), pp. 101-124.5. Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants (Part 2 of The Botanic Garden) (London: J. Johnson, 1791), pp. i-v; vii-8.6. Maria Jacson, Botanical Lectures by a Lady (London: J. Johnson, 1804), pp. 190-95.7. Thomas Andrew Knight, ‘On the Direction of the Radicle and Germen During the Vegetation of Seeds’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 96 (1806), pp. 99-108.8. Luke Howard, Essay on the Modifications of Clouds (London: Harvey and Darton, 1833), pp. 5-39.9. Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824, 2nd edn (London: B. Fellowes, 1828), pp. 44-54.Part 2. Geology10. John Playfair, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (Edinburgh: Cadell and Davies, 1802), pp. 168-201, 381-91.11. James Parkinson, Organic Remains of a Former World, 3 vols (London: J. Robson et al, 1804-11), vol. 1, pp. 467-71.12. William Buckland, Reliquiae Diluvianae; or, Observations on the Organic Remains Contained in Caves, Fissures, and Diluvial Gravel, 2nd edn (London: J. Murray, 1824), pp 171-228.13. Georges Cuvier, Essay on the Theory of the Earth, 5th edn (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and T. Cadell, 1827), pp. 7-3414. Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation (London: John Murray, 1830) pp. 524-34.15. Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Impey Murchison, ‘On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems, Exhibiting the Order in Which the Older Sedimentary Strata Succeed Each Other in England and Wales’, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 5th Meeting (1835), pp. 59-61.16. Roderick Impey Murchison, The Silurian System, 2 parts (London: J. Murray, 1839), Pt 1, pp. 311-22; Pt II pp. 579-86.BibliographyIndex