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iCHSTM 2013 Programme • Version 5.3.6, 27 July 2013 • ONLINE (includes late changes)
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The bibliographic history of Martin Lister's Historiae Conchyliorum (1685-1692) is a complex one. This work, the first comprehensive work on conchology, went through several draft and partial editions. In 2012, one of Lister's workbooks for the Historiae was rediscovered in the Bodleian Library, as well as four boxes of Listeriana in the Sacker Library. These primary sources further illuminate the techniques that Lister and his daughters utilized in constructing the Historiae, as well as the methodology they used to arrange the images of the shells for taxonomic purposes. Lister's workbook also contains original drawings created for relevant articles that he wrote for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and I will briefly put these images into their historical context.