Nine book reviews in the May 2002 issue of
Notes and Records
:
Voyages of discovery: three centuries of natural history exploration
, by T. Rice,
reviewed by
G. E. Fogg.
Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle
, R. Keynes (ed.),
reviewed by
P. R. Grant.
Enlightenment: Britain and the creation of the modern world
, by R. Porter,
reviewed by
P. Fara.
Ice blink: the tragic fate of Sir John Franklin's lost polar expedition
, by S. Cookman,
reviewed by
G. F. Hattersley-Smith.
The cogwheel brain: Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer
, by D. Swade,
reviewed by
M. Campbell-Kelly.
The symbolic species: the co-evolution of language and the human brain
, by T. Deacon,
reviewed by
T. Briscoe.
Defining features: scientific and medical portraits, 1660-2000
, by L. Jordanova,
reviewed by
J. Rowlinson.
Against the tide: an autobiographical account of a professional outsider
, by L. C. Woods,
reviewed by
J. T. Stuart.
A passion for DNA
, by J. D. Watson,
reviewed by
J. Postgate.