Contact Details

Dr Nathan Smith
Natural Sciences
National Museum Cardiff

Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NP

Phone: +44 (0)29 2057

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Staff Name

Dr Nathan Smith

Job Title

Head of Plant and Earth Science

Qualifications, memberships and relevant positions

BA Natural Sciences (Plant Sciences), University of Cambridge; MSc Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Diversity and Conservation, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Queen Mary, University of London; Ph.D. Zoology, University of Cambridge, Title: British mycology: a historical perspective and genetic analysis of Boletus edulis Bull.; Fellow of the Linnean Society

Research Interests

The changing perceptions of mycology and botany across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how disciplinary identity continues to shape practice in the taxonomic sciences

Keywords

Mycology, History of Science, Science and Literature

Selected Publications

Smith, N. (2024). Call me by your name: Considerations of DNA sequences as types within wider discussions on fungal nomenclature. Mycology, 1–7.

Smith, N. (2024). Taxonomy of fear: the evolution of HG Wells’s “Strange Orchid”. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 46(4), 461–478.

Smith, N. (2024). History in the pub: The historiography of JD Wetherspoon. Endeavour, 48(1), 100889.

Smith, N. (2023). Of stumps and stipes: comparisons between the cultures and identities of Yorkshire cricket and mycology at the turn of the twentieth century. Notes and Records, 77(1), 5–18.

Smith, N. (2023). Fertile substrate: the rise, fall, and succession of popular microscopy in Great Britain. Annals of Science, 80(3), 268–292.