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Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew

John Ruskin

The work is a nineteenth‑century botanical essay by John Ruskin that begins with a personal recollection of…

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

Jean-Henri Fabre

The work is a natural‑history essay by the celebrated French entomologist Jean‑Henri Fabre, compiled from a…

Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley

Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition gathers the later writings of Thomas Henry Huxley,…

Irritability: A Physiological Analysis of the General Effect of Stimuli in Living Substance

Max Verworn

Max Verworn’s Irritability is a scholarly lecture series turned monograph, produced for the Yale Silliman…

North American Recent Soft-Shelled Turtles (Family Trionychidae)

Robert G. Webb

Robert G. Webb’s North American Recent Soft‑Shelled Turtles is a scholarly monograph that blends field…

Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements

Various

Scientific American’s second volume, third number, dated October 10 1846, presents itself as a bustling…

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations

William T. Hornaday

The work is a nonfiction collection of personal observations on the intelligence and behavior of wild…

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1

Humboldt, Alexander von; Bonpland, Aimé

This work is a scientific travelogue that chronicles Alexander von Humboldt’s and Aimé Bonpland’s expedition…

On the mode of communication of cholera

John Snow

John Snow’s On the Mode of Communication of Cholera is a nineteenth‑century medical treatise that gathers…

Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage’s Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes is a polemical…

Man, Past and Present

A. H. Keane

The work is a scholarly survey of human diversity that attempts to trace the development of mankind from its…

Social Life in the Insect World

Jean-Henri Fabre

The Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical Viewpoint

Jacques Loeb

The work is a scholarly treatise that seeks to reconcile the physicochemical basis of life with the problem…

The Sea and Its Living Wonders A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

G. Hartwig

The Sea and Its Living Wonders is a sweeping survey of oceanic science and history, organized into three…

Taboo and genetics: A study of the biological, sociological and psychological foundation of the family

Knight, Melvin M. (Melvin Moses); Blanchard, Phyllis; Peters, Iva Lowther

Taboo and Genetics is a scholarly survey that attempts to unite three distinct strands of inquiry, biology,…

The book of antelopes, vol. 1 (of 4)

Sclater, Philip Lutley; Thomas, Oldfield

The work is a scholarly zoological treatise on antelopes, compiled by Philip Lutley Sclater and Oldfield…

Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley’s Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions is a collection of polemical pieces that first…

The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants.

Louis Figuier

The Ocean World is a nineteenth‑century natural history survey that sets out to describe the sea and its…

Unconscious Memory

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler’s “Unconscious Memory” is a scholarly work that bridges biology, philosophy, and the history of…

Research methods in ecology

Frederic E. Clements

Frederic E. Clements presents this work as a practical handbook for investigators and advanced students of…

The alligator and its allies

A. M. Reese

The work is a scholarly survey of crocodilian biology written by Albert M. Reese and published in 1915.

The pears of New York

U. P. Hedrick

The Pears of New York is a scholarly horticultural monograph that continues the New York Agricultural…

American Weasels

E. Raymond Hall

American Weasels is a scholarly monograph that treats the North American members of the genus Mustela as a…

The works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4): A treatise on comparative embryology: Vertebrata

Francis M. Balfour

The work is a scholarly treatise on comparative embryology, completing the author’s multi‑volume…