After Hours with the Listers

This program will be presented virtual via Zoom webinar.
 
Dr. Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln) joins Finch Collins (Linda Hall Library) to explore one of the most fascinating and challenging early modern scientific books: Martin, Anna, and Susanna Lister’s Historiae Conchyliorum (1685-1692). Anna Marie and Finch will share the story of the books’ production as embodied in the Library’s copy and discuss some of the bibliographical challenges of the book that bedevil scholars today. Copies of the Historiae from the Linnean Society of London, the Bodleian, and Jesus College, Oxford libraries will also be featured as comparative examples, as will the copperplates used to print the book.
 
The speakers:
 

Anne Marie Roos, PhD
 
Anna Marie Roos earned her PhD from the University of Colorado. She has taught at Salisbury University (USA), the University of Minnesota, and the University of Oxford.  She is currently Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Lincoln (UK). Roos has been a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford; a Fellow at the Huntington Library; a John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester; and Beinecke Fellow at Yale.  Roos was the recipient of the John C. Thackray Medal for her work in the history of natural history, and in 2023, she delivered the Gideon de Laune Medal Lecture at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. In 2024, she delivered the Bynum Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians. She is a fellow of the Linnean Society of London and the Society of Antiquaries of London. Roos is the Editor-in-Chief of Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. Author of 10 books and editions, and dozens of journal articles and book chapters, her latest book is Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur (Oxford University Press, 2021). Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the Royal Society of London, the Wellcome Trust, the McKnight Foundation, the Society of Authors, and the Lincoln Record Society.
 

Finch Collins
 
Finch Collins is the Library’s Assistant Curator of Rare Books. His undergraduate degree is from Brown University, with concentrations in Modern Culture and Media and American Studies. He earned his M.L.S. and M.A. in History at Indiana University Bloomington, where he specialized in rare books and manuscripts and worked at the Lilly Library. Finch’s areas of research interest include critical bibliography, early modern science and natural knowledge, queer history, and special collections instruction pedagogy. He is currently researching the dissemination of queerly gendered figures in early modern alchemy and its afterlives. Finch is an active member of the Bibliographical Society of America and the Rare Book and Manuscript Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.