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The book offers ineresting and well-constructed overviews of the natural history and imagery of birds and fossils. --Mary Parrish Science Magazine (01/01/2008)

A helpful resource for collectors as well as an introduction to an art form that is diminishing in application, if not in appreciation. M./December 2008--M. Thlarn The Bloomsbury Review

... a welcome addition to the very small field of the history of paleontological illustration. It will be particularly useful as a textbook in a history of paleontology course, where it will serve as an indispensable catalogue of past images, artists, and publications... -ISIS, 100: 2 (2009) This is a well written and researched book which can be read chronologically or as a source of reference. -www.palass.org, February 2009 The book offers ineresting and well-constructed overviews of the natural history and imagery of birds and fossils. -Mary Parrish, Science Magazine, October 2008 A helpful resource for collectors as well as an introduction to an art form that is diminishing in application, if not in appreciation. -M. Thlarn, The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2008 ... [O]ffers an informative and expert introduction to an interesting intersection of art and science-the illustration of fossils in books from the Renaissance to the present.... Davidson brings together the key figures and themes in this genre and provides basic information on them. Eight color plates and many black-and-white illustrations (especially of 19th- and 20th-century examples), along with a full bibliography, ensure that this will be a useful resource for years to come. Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers/faculty, professionals/practitioners, and general readers. -Choice, February 2009

.. . [O]ffers an informative and expert introduction to an interesting intersection of art and science the illustration of fossils in books from the Renaissance to the present.... Davidson brings together the key figures and themes in this genre and provides basic information on them. Eight color plates and many black-and-white illustrations (especially of 19th- and 20th-century examples), along with a full bibliography, ensure that this will be a useful resource for years to come. Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers/faculty, professionals/practitioners, and general readers. Choice, February 2009

Davidson . . . offers an informative and expert introduction to an interesting intersection of art and science--the illustration of fossils in books from the Renaissance to the present. . . . Eight color plates and many black-and-white illustrations . . . ensure that this will be a useful resource for years to come. -- Choice February 2009

The book offers ineresting and well-constructed overviews of the natural history and imagery of birds and fossils. October 2008 -- Mary Parrish * Science Magazine * This is a well written and researched book which can be read chronologically or as a source of reference. February 2009 * www.palass.org * . . . [O]ffers an informative and expert introduction to an interesting intersection of art and science-the illustration of fossils in books from the Renaissance to the present. . . . Davidson brings together the key figures and themes in this genre and provides basic information on them. Eight color plates and many black-and-white illustrations (especially of 19th- and 20th-century examples), along with a full bibliography, ensure that this will be a useful resource for years to come. Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers/faculty, professionals/practitioners, and general readers.February 2009 * Choice * A helpful resource for collectors as well as an introduction to an art form that is diminishing in application, if not in appreciation. November/December 2008 -- M. Thlarn * The Bloomsbury Review * . . . a welcome addition to the very small field of the history of paleontological illustration. It will be particularly useful as a textbook in a history of paleontology course, where it will serve as an indispensable catalogue of past images, artists, and publications . . . 100: 2 (2009) * ISIS *

A helpful resource for collectors as well as an introduction to an art form that is diminishing in application, if not in appreciation. -M. Thlarn, The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2008 ... [O]ffers an informative and expert introduction to an interesting intersection of art and science-the illustration of fossils in books from the Renaissance to the present... Davidson brings together the key figures and themes in this genre and provides basic information on them. Eight color plates and many black-and-white illustrations (especially of 19th- and 20th-century examples), along with a full bibliography, ensure that this will be a useful resource for years to come. Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers/faculty, professionals/practitioners, and general readers. -Choice, February 2009 The book offers ineresting and well-constructed overviews of the natural history and imagery of birds and fossils. -Mary Parrish, Science Magazine, October 2008 This is a well written and researched book which can be read chronologically or as a source of reference. -www.palass.org, February 2009 ... a welcome addition to the very small field of the history of paleontological illustration. It will be particularly useful as a textbook in a history of paleontology course, where it will serve as an indispensable catalogue of past images, artists, and publications... -ISIS, 100: 2 (2009)

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Jane P. Davidson is Professor of Art History at the University of Nevada, Reno, and author of The Bone Sharp: The Life of Edward Drinker Cope. She lives in Reno, Nevada.

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