Of Elephants & Roses: French Natural History, 1790 - 1830. Publ. 2013. approx. 100 col. figs. XXVI, 268 p. 4to. Paper bd.

Of Elephants & Roses: French Natural History, 1790-1830 is an anthology of scholarly essays from a 2011 symposium associated with the APS Museum exhibition Of Elephants & Roses: Encounters with French Natural History, 1790 1830. The symposium, titled Of Pictures & Specimens: Natural Historyin Post-Revolutionary and Restoration France, brought together scholars from the United States and France. Included were presentations on topics related to natural history, from the role of artists and gardeners in botanical science and the representations of a giraffes African keepers to the influence of natural history on Balzacs writing and on the birth of the social sciences. Participants brought interdisciplinary perspectives from materialculture, the histories of art and science, visual studies, botany, decorative arts, and cultural history.