Column

Columns by Shigeru Kuratani
Translated by Douglas Sipp and Hazuki Hiraga

2012
NEW
1. 　 Birding on Port Island: The occupation

 
2011
2. 　 Prints along the Seine
3. 　 My bibliomania – what lies ahead
4. 　 Bouillabaisse in the mist
5. 　 Romanoff, Romanoff – How books find their homes
6. 　 The much-loved min-min zemi



2010
2. 　 The Silence of the Moths
3. 　 In search of saturnids
4. 　 M's treasure, or just some awful bug?
5. 　 The city as a specimen
6. 　 Plein-air bookselling along the Seine

 
2009
1. 　 Haeckel's Dream : Anthropogenie
Reference：" The evolution of man : a popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogeny Vol.1 & 2"
2. 　 On the pleasures of reprints
4. 　 Science and worldviews
5. 　 Inherit the Wind :The struggle over Darwin
6. 　 Malta Time

 
2008
3. 　 My Cyclostome Gallery, Part Ⅱ: Lampreys along the rive
4. 　 Between the microscope and the naked eye: The lancelet seen larger than lif
5. 　 A reason for loving Cuvier
6. 　 Lamarck's "Philosophie Zoologique"

 

2007
1. 　 Forgotten anatomy
Reference：”Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbelthiere : mit Berücksichtung der Wirbellosen”
　　　　　”Handbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbeltiere”
2.　 The Evolution and Development of Comparative Embryology: Oscar Hertwig and the Modern Age
Reference：”Handbuch der vergleichenden und experimentellen Entwickelungslehre der Wirbeltiere”
3.　 Richard Owen's Catalogues - An Enduring Legacy
Reference：”Descriptive Catalogue of the Osteological Series contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England”
4.　 My cyclostome library
5.　 The Internet - The pathos of information
6.　 My booksman's Holidays



2006
1.　 Francis Balfour: A Prodigy Dies Young
Reference：”A Treatise on Comparative Embryology”
2.　 Gavin de Beer - My lifelong mentor and idol
Reference：”The Development of the Vertebrate Skull”
3.　 Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere
Reference：”Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere”
4.　 Ramón y Cajal,la estrella de España
Reference：”Histology of the Nervous System of Man and Vertebrates Vols.1 & 2”
5.　 J. Henri Fabre :My Souvenirs entomologiques
Reference：”Souveniers entomologiques Vol.1-10”
6.　 Saturnid Vagaries
Reference：”Souveniers entomologiques Vol.1-10”

 
2005
1.　 Resolving the avian form:At the border between science and natural history
Reference：”Bird of America（Original title：AUDUBON'S Birds of America.)”
2.　 The Power of the Picture Book: Fritz Müller's Comparative Embryology
Reference：”Facts and Arguments for Darwin”
3.　 Recapitulation: Yes or No? Revisiting von Baer
Reference：”Über Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere.”
4.　 Curves that refuse to be copied: The visual delights of embryology
Reference：”Contributions to embryology”