The curious Mister Catesby : a "truly ingenious" naturalist explores new worlds / edited for the Catesby Commemorative Trust by E. Charles Nelson and David J. Elliott ; foreword by Jane O. Waring.

Mister Catesby

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

xviii, 425 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm.

"The truly honest, ingenious, and modest Mr. Mark Catesby, F.R.S." : documenting his life (1682/83-1749) / E. Charles Nelson -- Behind the scenes : Catesby the man, viewed through the lens of a camera / Cynthia P. Neal -- Mark Catesby's botanical forerunners in Virginia / Karen Reeds -- Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) : pioneering naturalist, artist, and inspiration for Catesby / Kay Etheridge and Florence F.J.M. Pieters -- William Dampier (1651-1715) : the pirate of exquisite mind / Diana Preston and Michael Preston -- John Lawson's A new voyage to Carolina and his "Compleat history" : the Mark Catesby connection / Marcus B. Simpson Jr. -- Mark Catesby's world : England / Janet Browne -- Mark Catesby's world : Virginia / Sarah Hand Meacham -- Mark Catesby's Carolina adventure / Suzanne Linder Hurley -- Mark Catesby's Bahamian natural history (observed in 1725-1726) / Robert Robertson -- Mark Catesby's preparatory drawings for The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands / Henrietta McBurney -- The publication of Mark Catesby's The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands / Leslie K. Overstreet -- The plant collections of Mark Catesby in Oxford / Stephen A. Harris -- Carl Linnaeus and the influence of Mark Catesby's botanical work / C.E. Jarvis -- The economic botany and ethnobotany of Mark Catesby / W. Hardy Eshhaugh -- "Of birds of passage" : Mark Catesby and contemporary theories on bird migration and torpor / Shepard Krech III -- Catesby's animals (other than birds) in The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands / Aaron M. Bauer -- Catesby's fundamental contributions to Linnaeus's binomial catalog of North American animals / Kraig Adler -- Mark Catesby's plant introductions and English gardens of the eighteenth century / Mark Laird -- Following in the footsteps of Mark Catesby / Judith Magee -- Inspiration from The natural history of Carolina... by Mark Catesby / Ghillean T. Prance -- Conclusions : Account, appendix, Hortus, and other endings among Mark Catesby's work / David J. Elliott -- Appendix : Identification of the plants and animals illustrated by Mark Catesby for The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands / James L. Reveal.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-383) and indexes.

"A bibliography for Mark Catesby": pages 385-402.