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Pharmacographia A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India

Flückiger, Friedrich A. (Friedrich August); Hanbury, Daniel

Pharmacographia is a scholarly survey of vegetable‑derived drugs that were in common use in Britain and…

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.

George Francis Atkinson

The work is a scientific survey of North American fungi, concentrating on the practical distinction between…

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

Maxwell T. Masters

Vegetable Teratology is a scholarly survey of the odd and often striking abnormalities that can appear in…

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.

J. W. H. Eyre

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique, second edition, is a practical laboratory manual aimed at medical,…

Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1

Charles Darwin

The work is a biographical memoir assembled by Charles Darwin himself, opening with a detailed, almost…

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters

Charles Darwin

More Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume 1 gathers a series of previously unpublished correspondences that…

On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Charles Darwin

The work is a scientific treatise that sets out Charles Darwin’s case for evolution by natural selection.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.

Charles Darwin

The work is a scientific treatise by Charles Darwin that examines the patterns of colour and marking in…

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)

the Elder Pliny

The third volume of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History is a pre‑Linnaean survey of the insect world, beginning…

Darwin, and After Darwin, Volumes 1 and 3 An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions

George John Romanes

This work is a scholarly exposition of Darwinian evolution, written by George John Romanes, a noted zoologist…

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is a scientific treatise that sets out a theory of evolution by…

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete

da Vinci Leonardo

The volume is a facsimile of Leonardo da Vinci’s own handwritten treatises on optics, collected under the…

The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

Charles Darwin

The work is a scientific treatise by Charles Darwin that expands the ideas first sketched in On the Origin of…

Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained

M. Quinby

This work is a practical treatise on apiary science, written by M.

Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler’s work is a scholarly survey of the development of evolutionary thought, concentrating on the…

The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

Ch. Letourneau

Charles Letourneau’s work is a scholarly treatise that seeks to trace the development of marriage and family…

An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct

Flower, William Henry; Lydekker, Richard

An Introduction to the Study of Mammals is a scholarly reference work compiled by William H.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace’s *Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection* gathers a dozen essays he…

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, and Feeding and Management; with the Diseases to Which They Are Subject, and the Remedies Best Adapted to Their Cure

Robert Jennings

Robert Jennings’s work is a practical treatise that blends agricultural economics with the science of animal…

Letters of Asa Gray; Vol. 2

Asa Gray

This volume gathers a series of Asa Gray’s letters from the early 1860s, revealing the botanist’s candid…

Fossil plants, Vol. 2: A text-book for students of botany and geology

A. C. Seward

Fossil Plants, Volume 2 is a scholarly textbook aimed at students of botany and geology, continuing the…

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 02 (of 10)

Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers); Benham, W. B. (William Blaxland); Gamble, F. W. (Frederick William); Hartog, Marcus; Sheldon, Lilian

The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844

Charles Darwin

The work is a scholarly compilation of two early essays by Charles Darwin, written in 1842 and 1844, that lay…

Birds of the Rockies

Leander S. Keyser