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  1. Catesby's North American images in The Gentleman's Magazine 1751–1755

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2020, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  2. Katherine Sophia Baily (Lady Kane) and The Irish Flora (1833)

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  3. William Henry Harvey (1811–1866): addenda to bibliography

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  4. The “pedestrian traveller” Maurice Spillard (fl. 1777–1800): botanist in North America?

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  5. William Metcalfe (1804–1873), barrister and conchologist

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 2018, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  6. Tracking Antoni Gaymans's seventeenth-century horti sicci

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2018, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  7. Antoinette Emily Dyce (1845–1927), Mrs Danford

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 2017, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  8. A late eighteenth-century Society of Botany in Dublin

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 2017, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  9. Robert Henry Fernando Rippon: some additional biographical notes

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2017, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  10. Emily Lawless and Charles Darwin: an Irish mystery

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2016, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  11. Shakespeare has missed the dandelion

    Article • Shakespeare, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  12. The Catesby brothers and the early eighteenth-century natural history of Gibraltar

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 2013, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  13. Charles Whitlaw (né Whitly) (1771–1850): botanist, horticulturist, charlatan and quack

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2013, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  14. Archibald Menzies's visit to Isla del Coco, January 1795

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2013, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  15. The Potato Late Blight pathogen in Ireland, 1846: reconnecting Irish specimens with the Moore–Berkeley correspondence

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 2011, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  16. “A botanical encampment at the foot of Ben Voirlich June 22d. 1821” by Robert Kaye Greville, and a Scottish beetle

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2011, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  17. Archibald Menzies on Albemarle Island, Galápagos archipelago, 7 February 1795

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2011, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson, Professor Duncan M Porter

  18. The ornithological observations of James Parsons Burkitt in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2009, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  19. Daniel Chambers Macreight FRCP, FLS (1799–1856), a little-known, innovative Irish botanist

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2009, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  20. Erica scoparia and Erica spiculifolia (formerly Bruckenthalia spiculifolia) in interglacial floras in Ireland and Britain: confused nomenclature leading to misidentification of fossilized seeds

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, March 2009, Elsevier

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  21. WILLIAM KILBURN’S CALICO PATTERNS, COPYRIGHT ANDCURTIS ’S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, November 2008, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  22. (1786) Proposal to Conserve the Name Erica manipuliflora against E. forskalii (Ericaceae)

    Article • Taxon, August 2007, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  23. A PORTRAIT OF BARTLE GRANT

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, August 2006, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  24. Clarification of a publication date for George Bentham's treatment of Ericeae (Ericaceae) published in A.-P. de Candolle's Prodromus volume 7 part 2 (December 1839)

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2005, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  25. (1679) Proposal to Reject the Name Erica viridipurpurea (Ericaceae)

    Article • Taxon, February 2005, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  26. William Robinson in North America 1870

    Article • Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, April 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  27. A more closely circumscribed publication date for George Sinclair's Hortus ericæus Woburnensis (1825)

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2003, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  28. W. H. Harvey to W. J. Hooker 25 November 1834: an amendment

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2003, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  29. An annotated bibliography of the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811–1866)

    Article • Archives of Natural History, June 2002, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  30. Bibliography of William Thomas Stearn (1911–2001)

    Article • Archives of Natural History, June 2002, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  31. Patrick Browne M.D. (c. 1720–1790), an Irish doctor in the Caribbean: his residence on Saint Croix (1757–1765) and his unpublished accounts of volcanic activity on Montserrat

    Article • Archives of Natural History, February 2001, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  32. book review

    Article • Garden History, January 2001, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  33. A caricature of an Irish naturalist: Revd Dr William Richardson (1740–1820)

    Article • Archives of Natural History, February 2000, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  34. So Many Really Fine Plants - An Epitome of Japanese Plants in Western European Gardens

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, May 1999, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  35. Revision of the genus Fascicularia Mez (Bromeliaceae)

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, April 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  36. Plate 357. Iris lazica Iridaceae

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, February 1999, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  37. Ninian Niven, Curtis's Botanical Magazine and the art of advertising new plants

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, November 1998, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  38. John White A.M., M.D., F.LS. (c. 1756–1832), Surgeon-General of New South Wales: a new biography of the messenger of the echidna and waratah

    Article • Archives of Natural History, June 1998, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  39. John White's Journal of a voyage to new South Wales (London 1790): bibliographic notes

    Article • Archives of Natural History, February 1998, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  40. Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood: Some Irish glosses on its discovery and introduction into cultivation

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, February 1998, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  41. Patrick Browne's The civil and natural history of Jamaica (1756, 1789)

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 1997, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  42. Robert Scott's Irish mosses,Dicranum scottianum and Grimmia maritima: a note about their publication

    Article • Journal of Bryology, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  43. NELSON, E.C. and PROBERT, A. A man who can speak of plants: Dr Thomas Coulter (1793–1843) of Dundalk in Ireland, Mexico and Aha California. Privately published by E. Charles Nelson. Dublin: 1994. Pp viii 182; illustrated. Price £15.00. ISBN 0-9524-8740-6.

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 1996, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  44. WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, February 1996, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  45. Lophomyrtus aotearoanaE. C. Nelson: A new Latin name for the New Zealand native myrtle, Ramarama

    Article • New Zealand Journal of Botany, December 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  46. NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDENS, GLASNEVIN RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, November 1995, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  47. GLOXINIA SYLVATICA Gesneriaceae

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, November 1995, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  48. PSEUDOPHEGOPTERIS LEVINGEI Thelypteridaceae

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, November 1995, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  49. HARVEYA PULCHRA Scrophulariaceae

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, November 1995, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  50. SIR WILLIAM'S IRISH LACE GIFTS FROM AN IRISH VISCOUNTESS

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, November 1995, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  51. COTONEASTER BRADYI Rosaceae

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, November 1995, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  52. Nicolaas Witsen's letter of 1698 to Martin Lister about a Dutch expedition to the South Land (Western Australia): the original text and a review of its significance for the history of Australian natural history

    Article • Archives of Natural History, June 1994, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  53. Dr William Hamilton (ca 1783–1856), botanist, of Donegal and Plymouth

    Article • Archives of Natural History, February 1994, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  54. Charles Rathouis's painting (1889) of Augustine Henry's goral from the Yichang gorges, China

    Article • Archives of Natural History, February 1994, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  55. DEUTZIA PURPURASCENS ‘Alpine Magician’: REGINALD FARRER AND GLASNEVIN

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, November 1993, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  56. Mapping plant distribution patterns: two pioneering examples from Ireland published in the 1860s

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 1993, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  57. The names of the Australian grass-tree: Xanthorrhoea Sm. and Acoroides C. Kite (Xanthorrhoeaceae)

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, June 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  58. James Niven (1776-1827), a Scottish Botanical Collector at the Cape of Good Hope. His Hortus siccus at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN), and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

    Article • Kew Bulletin, January 1993, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  59. (1059) Proposal to Conserve 1042 Xanthorrhoea J. E. Smith over Acoroides C. Kite (Xanthorrhoeaceae)

    Article • Taxon, November 1992, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  60. A short treatise of firr = trees… (Dublin, 1705) by Samuel Waring

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 1992, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  61. William Henry Harvey as Colonial Treasurer at the Cape of Good Hope: a case of depression and bowdlerized history

    Article • Archives of Natural History, June 1992, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  62. Flora Hibernica (1836): Its Publication, and Aftermath as Viewed by Dr. Thomas Taylor

    Article • Taxon, February 1992, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  63. Dr Patrick Neill's herbarium of Scottish garden plants in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN)

    Article • Botanical Journal of Scotland, January 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  64. ARAUCARIA BIDWILLII: ANDREW PETRIE'S PINE

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, November 1991, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  65. THE WAXING OF A GLORIOUS RAJAH

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, May 1991, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  66. GERANIUM CATARACTARUM Geraniaceae

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, May 1991, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  67. TULBAGHIA LEUCANTHA Alliaceae

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, February 1991, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  68. “It's a long way to Tipperary” —finding natural history archives in Ireland, with an appendix listing archives

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 1990, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  69. ‘A GEM OF THE FIRST WATER’: P.B. O'KELLY OF THE BURREN

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, February 1990, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  70. James and Thomas Drummond: their Scottish origins and curatorships in Irish botanic gardens (ca 1808–ca 1831)

    Article • Archives of Natural History, February 1990, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  71. Heathers in Ireland

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, November 1989, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  72. Dionaea D. Solander ex J. Ellis (Droseraceae): notes on the nomenclature and typification of Venus's Fly-trap

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, March 1989, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  73. Medieval Naturalism and the Botanical Carvings at Corcomroe Abbey (County Clare)

    Article • Gesta, January 1989, University of Chicago Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  74. SOME AUSTRALASIAN FERNS IN IRISH GARDENS

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, August 1988, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  75. Holotype ofOlearia semidentataDecne

    Article • New Zealand Journal of Botany, July 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  76. OF ROSA HUGONIS AND FATHER HUGH

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, February 1988, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  77. 'Building Castles of Flowers' Maria Edgeworth as Gardener

    Article • Garden History, January 1988, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  78. The painted herbarium of James McNab in the national Botanic Gardens, Dublin, and his other Botanical art

    Article • Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, January 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  79. READERS‘ LETTERS

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, May 1987, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  80. "IN HONOUR OF IRELAND": the Hibernian contribution to ‘Curtis's Botanical Magazine’ 1787–1987

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, February 1987, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  81. Joseph Spence's Plan for an Irish Garden

    Article • Garden History, January 1987, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  82. SOME BOTANICAL HOAXES AND CHINESE PUZZLES

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, November 1986, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  83. Sarracenia Hybrids Raised at Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, Ireland: Nomenclature and Typification

    Article • Taxon, August 1986, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  84. AUGUSTINE HENRY'S PLANTS IN KEW GARDENS

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, August 1986, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  85. THE BURREN, COUNTY CLARE, IRELAND

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, August 1985, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  86. THE NATURAL HABITAT OF ERICA ANDEVALENSIS IN SOUTH-WESTERN SPAIN

    Article • Curtis s Botanical Magazine, August 1985, Wiley

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  87. A Nesfield Plan for Lyrath County Kilkenny

    Article • Garden History, January 1985, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  88. David Moore, Miles J. Berkeley and scientific studies of potato blight in Ireland, 1845–1847

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 1983, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  89. The Dublin Florists' Club in the Mid Eighteenth Century

    Article • Garden History, January 1982, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  90. Charles Darwin's correspondence with David Moore of Glasnevin on insectivorous plants and potatoes

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, March 1981, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  91. Phytogeography of southern Australia

    Article • January 1981, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  92. Some Publication Dates for Parts of William Curtis' "Flora Londinensis"

    Article • Taxon, November 1980, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  93. 'In the Contemplation of Vegetables' — Caleb Threlkeld (1676-1728), his life, background and contribution to Irish botany

    Article • Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, November 1979, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  94. Historical records of the Irish Ericaceae, with particular reference to the discovery and naming ofErica mackaiana

    Article • Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, November 1979, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  95. Irish Horticulturists, II William Edward Gumbleton (1840-1911), Connoisseur and Bibliophile

    Article • Garden History, January 1979, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  96. Irish Horticulturists. I: W. H. Crawford

    Article • Garden History, January 1979, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  97. 'To Protect and Promote the Science of Gardening': The Origins and Early History of the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland, 1816-30

    Article • Garden History, January 1978, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  98. A taxonomic revision of the genus Adenanthos (Proteaceae)

    Article • Brunonia, January 1977, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  99. Antoine Guichenot andAdenanthos(Proteaceae) specimens collected during Baudin's Australian Expedition, 1801-1803

    Article • Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, November 1976, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  100. Antoine Guichenot and Adenanthos (Proteaceae) specimens collected during Baudin's Australian Expedition, 1801-1803

    Article • Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, November 1976, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  101. The Collectors and Type Locations of Some of Labillardiere's "terra van-Leuwin" (Western Australia) Specimens

    Article • Taxon, May 1975, JSTOR

    Dr E. Charles Nelson

  102. Ecology and status of Erica vagans in County Fermanagh, Ireland

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, October 1974, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr E. Charles Nelson