All Stories

  1. Siebold and Temminck on the distribution of Pteropus dasymallus, the Ryukyu Flying Fox

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

    Dr Holger Funk

  2. Caspar Wolf and his personal public commitment to edit Conrad Gessner’s unfinished history of plants (Part I: Essay)

    Article • Gesnerus, November 2018, Brill

    Dr Holger Funk

  3. Thomas Penny and Conrad Gessner: a revision of some long-established chronological particulars

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

    Dr Holger Funk

  4. John Caius's contributions to Conrad Gessner's Historia animalium and “Historia plantarum”: a survey with commentaries

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

    Dr Holger Funk

  5. The first printed Latin editions of Dioscorides'sDe materia medica(1478, 1512): an inventory-based re-evaluation

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

    Dr Holger Funk

  6. A re-examination of C. J. Temminck's sources for his descriptions of the extinct Japanese wolf

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2015, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Holger Funk

  7. Jan Černý’s Knieha lekarska (1517): closing a gap in the history of printed illustrated herbals

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2015, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Holger Funk

  8. Describing plants in a new mode: the introduction of dichotomies into sixteenth-century botanical literature

    Article • Archives of Natural History, April 2014, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Holger Funk

  9. Adam Zalužanský’s “De sexu plantarum” (1592): an early pioneering chapter on plant sexuality

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

    Dr Holger Funk

  10. Kaempferol: a case study of what eponyms in chemical nomenclature can tell us

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

    Dr Holger Funk

  11. Towards bibliographical accuracy: a clarification of some obscure references in Linnaeus's Musa cliffortiana (1736)

    Article • Archives of Natural History, October 2012, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Holger Funk

  12. R. J. Gordon’s Discovery of the Spotted Hyena’s Extraordinary Genitalia in 1777

    Article • Journal of the History of Biology, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Holger Funk