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Man And His Ancestor: A Study In Evolution

Charles Morris

The work is a popular‑science treatise on human origins, written by Charles Morris to bridge the gap between…

The life of Jean Henri Fabre, the entomologist, 1823-1910

Augustin Fabre

The book is a biographical tribute to the celebrated French entomologist Jean‑Henri Fabre, assembled from…

The book of wonders: Gives Plain and Simple Answers to the Thousands of Everyday Questions That Are Asked and Which All Should Be Able to, but Cannot Answer...

The Book of Wonders is an encyclopedic compendium that sets out to answer the myriad everyday questions that…

First course in biology

Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde); Coleman, Walter Moore

The work is a secondary‑school textbook that seeks to replace the fragmented study of botany, zoology and…

The Voyage of the Beagle

Charles Darwin

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin’s first‑hand account of the five‑year scientific expedition that…

Species Plantarum, Sections IV-V

Carl von Linné

Darwin

Gamaliel Bradford

This work is a biographical study of Charles Robert Darwin, written by Gamaliel Bradford.

Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.

Charles Darwin

The work is Charles Darwin’s Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries…

An Elementary Study of Insects

Leonard Haseman

Leonard Haseman’s An Elementary Study of Insects is a practical textbook aimed at grade‑school pupils,…

Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc.

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker’s Himalayan Journals is a sprawling travelogue that doubles as a meticulous…

A handbook of systematic botany

Eugenius Warming

This work is a scholarly translation of Eugenius Warming’s Handbook of Systematic Botany, drawn from the…

On Growth and Form

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

The work is a scholarly treatise on the geometry of living forms, presented as an “easy introduction” to…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" Volume 10, Slice 6

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Eleventh Edition, Volume X, Slice VI is a reference work that begins its…

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

William Thomas Fernie

The work is a nineteenth‑century manual that sets out the theory and practice of “herbal simples”,…

Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin

W. P. Ball

This work is a scholarly essay that tackles a single, contentious question in evolutionary biology: whether…

Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel

The work is a scholarly pamphlet that stages the intellectual clash between Ernst Haeckel and Rudolf Virchel…

Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe"

Sir Oliver Lodge

Oliver Lodge’s work is a polemical essay that confronts Ernst Haeckel’s popular monistic doctrine, “The…

The Evolution of Man

Ernst Haeckel

Rollo's Experiments

Jacob Abbott

The book is a juvenile natural‑history tale that opens with a seven‑year‑old boy named Rollo perched on his…

Flora of the Sudan

Broun, A. F. (Alfred Forbes); Massey, R. E.

The work is a botanical catalogue of Sudan’s flowering plants, compiled by A. F.

The flowering plants of Africa An analytical key to the genera of African phanerograms

Franz Thonner

The work is a scholarly botanical reference that presents an analytical key to the genera of African…

Cassell's Natural History, Vol. 3 (of 6)

Cassell’s Natural History, Volume III is a Victorian‑era encyclopaedia of zoology, arranged by taxonomic…

Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

E. S. Russell

Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology is a scholarly survey of the…

The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 05 (of 10)

Sedgwick, Adam; Sharp, David; Sinclair, F. G.