Historia natural
Historia natural es un termino cuje definition es problematic, viste que diverse disciplinas lo considera de maniera differente. Multes de iste conceptiones include le studio del esseres vive (per exemplo, le biologia, includente botanica e zoologia); altere conceptiones extende le termino al campos del paleontologia, del ecologia e del biochimia, assi como del geologia, del astronomia, e del physica. Un persona interessate in le historia natural es denominate naturalista. Su activitate principal consiste in un investigation amateur, quasi nunquam professional. Le origine del interesse in iste area in Grande Britannia esseva connexe con le tradition phytotherapeutic. Isto resultava in le disveloppamento de plure campos de interesse, como le studio del aves, del papiliones o del flores silvestre. 

In le dece-octave e dece-none seculos, le historia natural esseva un termino que on sovente usava pro referer se a tote le studios scientific, in opposition al historia politic o ecclesiastic (theologic).

Societates de historia natural 

Le termino "historia natural", solitari o in occasiones associate al archeologia, forma parte del nomine de multe associationes national, regional e local que se occupa del registration del aves, mammales, insectos, e plantas. Illo alsi include sectiones dedicate al registration del vita microscopic e del geologia.

Ligamines externe 
 Natural History Museum, London
 London Natural History Society
 Birmingham Natural History Society
 Bombay Natural History Society, India
 Glasgow Natural History Society
 Manchester Microscopical & Natural History Society
 Sorby Natural History Society, Sheffield
 American Museum of Natural History, New York
 Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle
 Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
 Rhode Island Natural History Survey 

Geologia
Botanica
Zoologia
Biologia