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Argentine Ornithology, Volume 1 (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic.

Sclater, Philip Lutley; Hudson, W. H.

This volume is a scientific catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic, compiled by the ornithologists…

Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work

A. S. Packard

This work is a scholarly biography of Jean‑Baptiste Lamarck, the French naturalist whose ideas laid early…

Life histories of North American shore birds, Part 1 (of 2)

Arthur Cleveland Bent

Arthur Cleveland Bent’s Life Histories of North American Shore Birds is a scholarly bulletin issued by the…

Handbook of Medical Entomology

Riley, William A. (William Albert); Johannsen, O. A.

The Handbook of Medical Entomology is a scholarly survey of insects, arachnids, mites and related arthropods…

The winners in life's race: Or, the great backboned family

Arabella B. Buckley

The work is a nineteenth‑century natural‑history survey aimed at young readers, presenting the vertebrate, or…

Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)

James Law

The work is a scholarly veterinary textbook, the third volume of a five‑part series authored by James Law,…

The birds of Jamaica

Philip Henry Gosse

The work is a nineteenth‑century natural history survey that sets out to catalogue every bird known from…

A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 2 (of 2)

David Starr Jordan

Beginners' zoology

Walter Moore Coleman

Walter Moore Coleman’s Beginners’ Zoology is a straightforward instructional text that opens with a concise…

Life and death

A. Dastre

The work is a scholarly survey of biological thought that frames the study of life and death as a branch of…

Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I

Erasmus Darwin

Zoonomia, the first volume of Erasmus Darwin’s early natural philosophy, is an ambitious attempt to organise…

The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions

Carveth Read

The work is a scholarly treatise that seeks to explain humanity’s biological and psychological origins by…

How to Use the Popular Science Library; History of Science; General Index

Serviss, Garrett Putman; Selwyn-Brown, Arthur

The work is the concluding volume of the Popular Science Library, a sixteen‑part series that gathers the most…

Life histories of North American woodpeckers

Arthur Cleveland Bent

This volume is a scientific bulletin issued by the United States National Museum in 1939, forming number 174…

Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life

Catherine Cooper Hopley

The work is a nineteenth‑century natural history treatise that sets out to correct the many misconceptions…

The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2)

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer’s The Principles of Biology is a scholarly treatise that seeks to lay out the general truths…

New-England's rarities discovered: In birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country

Josselyn, John, active 1630-1675

The work is a nineteenth‑century re‑edition of John Josselyn’s seventeenth‑century natural history of New…

Darwin and Modern Science

A. C. Seward

This volume is a commemorative collection of scholarly essays assembled in 1909 to mark both the centenary of…

Journal of a tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas

Hooker, Joseph Dalton; Ball, John

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel journal that records a scientific expedition to Morocco and the Great…

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

John William Draper

John William Draper’s History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science is a sweeping, argumentative study…

A Civic Biology, Presented in Problems

George W. Hunter

The work is a school‑level textbook that treats elementary biology as a problem‑solving discipline, aimed at…

The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature

Alfred Russel Wallace

The work is a scientific travelogue that intertwines narrative with exhaustive natural‑history observation.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters

Charles Darwin

More Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume 2 gathers a series of hitherto unpublished letters that illuminate the…

Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

Alexander von Humboldt

Cosmos is Alexander von Humboldt’s ambitious attempt to unite the scattered branches of natural science into…