American curiosity: cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world

The British metropolis and its "America," 1584-1763. A strange overplus ; Nature's admirable regularity ; London's curious

English bodies in America. The English humoral body ; Contagious climates ; The English body saved ; Uncouth symptoms

Atlantic correspondence networks and the curious male colonial. Mutual commerce ; Not one rational eye ; The empirical advantage ; Becoming an F.R.S. ; Us Americans

The nature of candid friendship. Familiar letters ; The honest friend versus the fop ; Curious love ; Gifts

Lavinia's nature. Fatal curiosity ; A peculiar grace in the fair sex ; Specimens by every shipping ; Finding signs of the pastoral

Indian sagacity. The most secret things of nature ; Dear and deadly grapes ; Contested mediation ; No people have better eyes ; A wonderful antidote

African magi, slave poisoners. Topographies of slave knowledge ; Cunning ; Hiding places ; Collectors ; Poisoners ; Healers ; Obscene birds ; Forest trial, forest refuge.