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ReadThe Dog
William Youatt
The work is a nineteenth‑century reference on the canine, presented as an expanded edition of a previously…
ReadMakers of British Botany; A Collection of Biographies by Living Botanists
The volume is a scholarly collection of biographical essays on the leading British botanists from the…
ReadAn introduction to the study of fishes
Albert C. L. G. Günther
The work is a systematic handbook of ichthyology that aims to present, in a concise yet comprehensive form,…
ReadToadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.
McIlvaine, Charles; Macadam, Robert K.
The work is a comprehensive reference on North American fungi, cataloguing roughly one thousand species of…
On the Genesis of Species
St. George Jackson Mivart
On the Genesis of Species is a scholarly treatise by St George Jackson Mivart that sets out to examine the…
ReadThe Life of the Grasshopper
Jean-Henri Fabre
The work is a scholarly essay on insects, assembled from previously published chapters that appeared in…
Applied Eugenics
Popenoe, Paul; Johnson, Roswell H.
Applied Eugenics is a scholarly treatise that seeks to merge biological theory with social policy.
ReadTravels into North America, Volume 3 (of 3)
Pehr Kalm
This third volume of Pehr Kalm’s Travels into North America continues the Swedish naturalist’s detailed…
ReadA history of land mammals in the western hemisphere
William Berryman Scott
This work is a scholarly survey of the fossil record of land mammals across North and South America, written…
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
Charles Darwin
The second volume of Charles Darwin’s Life and Letters gathers a selection of his private correspondence,…
ReadReport on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII
Ernst Haeckel
The work is a monumental scientific monograph by Ernst Haeckel, professor of zoology at Jena, presenting the…
ReadThe Story-book of Science
Jean-Henri Fabre
The Story‑book of Science is a juvenile‑oriented natural‑history work by the French naturalist Jean‑Henri…
ReadEvolution and Adaptation
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan’s Evolution and Adaptation is a scholarly treatise that opens with a broad philosophical…
ReadStudies in the History and Method of Science, vol. 1 (of 2)
This volume, Studies in the History and Method of Science, is a scholarly collection of essays edited by…
ReadThe Evolution Theory, Vol. 1 of 2
August Weismann
The work is a scholarly collection of lectures by August Weismann, delivered at the University of Freiburg…
ReadThe reason why: a careful collection of many hundreds of reasons for things which, though generally believed, are imperfectly understood. A book of condensed scientific knowledge for the million
Robert Kemp Philp
The work presents itself as a sprawling compendium of “reasons why” – a systematic catalogue of questions and…
ReadMicrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia is a pioneering scientific treatise that records the first systematic…
ReadThe Biotic Associations of Cockroaches
Roth, Louis M. (Louis Marcus); Willis, Edwin R.
The work is a scholarly monograph that surveys every known biological relationship involving cockroaches.
The romance of natural history, second series
Philip Henry Gosse
The work is a Victorian‑era natural‑history compendium that reads like a series of essays rather than a…
ReadThe Insect World Being a Popular Account of the Orders of Insects; Together with a Description of the Habits and Economy of Some of the Most Interesting Species
Louis Figuier
The work is a nineteenth‑century popular science treatise that aims to introduce the orders of insects and to…
ReadThe romance of insect life: Interesting descriptions of the strange and curious in the insect world
Edmund Selous
Edmund Selous’s The Romance of Insect Life offers a leisurely tour through the myriad habits of insects,…
The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State
Henry A. Gleason
The work is a practical field guide that teaches the reader to identify every native seed plant of Michigan…
Birds from North Borneo University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 17, No. 8, pp. 377-433, October 27, 1966
Max C. Thompson
The work is a scientific report that documents the birds collected during a 1962‑1963 expedition of the…
ReadThe Life and Love of the Insect
Jean-Henri Fabre
The Life and Love of the Insect is a translated selection from Jean‑Henri Fabre’s monumental Souvenirs…