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768 entries match Natural History & Evolution [K01.900.500]
1911 –1913
#12897
L'homme fossile de La Chapelle-aux-Saints.
Originally published in four parts in Vols. 6-8 (1911-13) of the Annales de paléontologie. The La Chapelle-aux-Saints skeleton (La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1), discovered in 1908, was the most complete single Neanderthal s…
1912
#8153
Die Entstehung der Kontinente.
Wegener originated the theory of continental drift in this paper on the origin of continents, which he conceived after being struck by the apparent correspondence in the shapes of the coastlines on the west and east s…
1912
#11254
Die diluviale Vorzeit Deutschlands. Archäologischer Teil, von R. R. Schmidt; II. Geologischer Teil, von Ernest Koken, Die Geologie und Tierweld der paläolithischen Kulturstätten Deutschlands; III. Anthropologischer Teil von A. Schliz, Die diluvialen Menschenreste Deutschlands.
This splendidly produced and illustrated large folio volume was the first major book on paleolithic research published in Germany. Schmidt described systematic investigations of the caves in the Swabian Alps, and was …
1913
#1903
La synthèse des glucosides par les ferments.
Bourquelot did important work on the synthesis of glucosides; several more papers followed the one given above.
1913
#211
On the discovery of a palaeolithic skull and mandible in a flint-bearing gravel overlying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). With appendix by Grafton Elliot Smith.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Dawson, Woodward. The first "scientific" report on “Piltdown man” (Eoanthropus dawsoni,) one of the longest-lasting and most influential hoaxes ever perpetrated in scie…
1913
#7436
Our vanishing wild life: Its extermination and reservation.
One of the first books wholly devoted to endangered wild animals. Hornaday revolutionized museum exhibits by displaying wildlife in their natural settings, and is credited with discovering the American crocodile, savi…
1915
#13114
Mimicry in butterflies.
1916
#353.1
Form and function: a contribution to the history of animal morphology.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1916 –1923
#7091
A Bibliography of fishes by Bashford Dean, enlarged and edited by Charles Rochester Eastman. 3 vols. Vol. 3 extended and edited by Eugene Willis Gudger with the cooperation of Arthur Wilbur Henn.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1916 –1920
#8562
De animalibus libri xxvi. Nach der Cölner Urschrift, herausgegeben von Hermann Stadler. 2 vols. (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters 15-16).
1918
#11014
The medical report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil.
The expedition was led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., an American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer noted for his expeditions to the Amazon Basin. "As a geographer and explorer Rice specialized in rivers.[1][7…
1918
#12079
Medical contributions to the study of evolution.
"Part I: Adaptation and disease". The Croonian Lectures delivered in June 1917. Includes "Adaptation in the bacteria and the evolution of the infectious diseases" and "Adaptation to disease-producing agencies in the h…
1921
#7309
A new cave man from Rhodesia, South Africa.
The first fossil human discovered in Africa: Homo rhodesiensis, commonly referred to as the Broken Hill Skull or the Kabwe Cranium.The skull, which most current experts classify as Homo heidelbergensis, was discovered…
1922 –1939
#83
Œuvres de Pasteur, réunies par Pasteur Vallery-Radot. 7 vols.
One of the founders of bacteriology, Pasteur's work on fermentation, the doctrine of spontaneous generation (which he exploded), virus diseases and preventive vaccinations, was fundamental. Digital facsimile of the co…
1922
#1713
The population problem: A study in human evolution.
1922
#212
The Rhodesian skull.
Description of the skull found at Broken Hill, Rhodesia, in 1921.
1922
#3691.1
The origin and evolution of the human dentition.
Reprinted with revisions and new index from J. dent. Res., 1920, 2, 89-175, 215-426, 604-717; 1921, 3, 87-228.
1922
#12001
Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others
Most of this book concerns John Goodyer, his life, his garden, a detailed 40-page catalogue of Goodyer's library, Goodyer's list of plants, lists of plants grown in English gardens, etc. Digital facsimile from Google …
1923
#1767
On airs, waters, and places. IN: his [Works] with an English translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1, pp. 65-137
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“The first book ever written on medical geography, climatology, and anthropology” (Garrison). The Latin translation of this text was first published in Rhazes’ Liber ad Almansorem, Milan, 1481. See No. 39.1. The stand…
1923
#5538.1
On Rhinosporidium seeberi (Wernicke, 1903), with special reference to its sporulation and affinities.
Ashworth was the first to show that Rhinosporidium was a fungus.
1924 –1929
#7097
A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1924
#9919
Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit.
Translated as The climates of the geological past. Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit. Reproduction of the original German edition and complete English translation. Faksimile-Nachdruck der deutschen Originalausgabe …
1924
#11226
Catalogue of the mycological library of Howard A. Kelly. Compiled by Louis C. C. Krieger.
The catalogue was prepared for Kelly by Louis Krieger, an eminent mycologist and botanical illustrator. Entries for this library were not numbered; however in his introduction Kelly stated that the library "herewith c…
1924
#14287
The morphology and evolution of the apes and man. With a foreward by Professor G. Elliot Smith.
As far as I able to determine in 2024, Sonntag's book was the first attempt to write a general treatise on what eventually came to be called "human evolutionary anatomy," in the sense of studying the relationship betw…
1925
#211.1
Australopithecus africanus: The man-ape of South Africa.
First report on Dart's discovery in 1924 of the first member of the genus Australopithecus, the first hominin found in Africa. In their 150th anniversary issue published on November 4, 2019 the editors of Nature inclu…
1925
#10615
Bryan and Darrow at Dayton. The Record and documents of the "Bible-Evolution Trial." Edited and compiled by Leslie H. Allen.
Key documents from the Scopes Trial. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1925
#11108
Opere di Agostino Bassi n. a Mairago 1778-m. a Lodi 1856- scelte e pubblicate a cura del comitato nazionale per la ristampa auspice la Società medico-chirurgica di Pavia.
1926
#7307
Human origins: A manual of prehistory. 2 vols.
A detailed and extensively illustrated summary, with detailed bibliographical references, of the state of knowledge of prehistory in Europe as of 1926. Appendix 1: "Stratigraphic Study of Paleolithic Sites" is a very …
1927
#7255
The lower molar hominid tooth from the Chou Kou Tien deposit.
In this report on a single hominid tooth found by Swedish archeologist Birger Bohlin at the Zhoukoudian site in 1927 Black named a new genus and species of hominid, Sinanthropus pekinensis. He characterized the specim…
1928
#350
The brain from ape to man: A contribution to the study of the evolution and development of the human brain by Frederick Tilney. With chapters on the reconstruction of the gray matter in the primate brain stem by Henry Alsop Riley. 2 vols.
Classic study of the evolution of the central nervous system in the higher mammals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1928
#8532
The zoological section of the Nuzhatu-l-Qulūb of Hamdullāh Al-Mustaufī Al-Qazwīnī. Edited and translated by John Stephenson.
1928 –1975
#11773
Index litteraturae entomologicae serie I: Die Welt-Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inklusive. Index litteraturae entomologicae series II: von 1864 bis 1900. 9 vols.
The first part, by Horn and Schenkling, was privately published by Horn in 4 vols., 1928-29. The second part, by Derksen and Göllner-Scheiding, was published by the Akademie der Lanwirtschafwissenschaften der DDR in 5…
1929
#1933
On the antibacterial action of cultures of a penicillium, with special reference to their use in the isolation of B. influenzae.
Discovery of the growth-inhibiting action of Penicillium on certain bacteria. In 1945 Fleming shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of …
1930 –1938
#1782
Handbuch der Klimatologie. Vol. 1-5.
1930 –1933
#6588
Medicine in Virginia in the seventeenth (eighteenth, nineteenth) century. 3 vols.
1930
#253
The genetical theory of natural selection.
The first coherent general algebraic analysis of Mendelian population behavior. The work contains Fisher’s rigorous development of his “fundamental theorem of natural selection”–”the rate of increase in fitness of any…
1930
#7308
Mathematische Klimalehre und astronomische Theorie der Klimaschwankungen. Handbuch der Klimatologie, Bd. 1, Teil A.
Milankovitch cycles, first exposition (176 pages). Milankovitch theorized that variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth's orbit determined climatic patterns on Earth through orbital forcing,…
1931
#354
An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology. Based chiefly on the titles in the Blacker Library of Zoology, the Emma Shearer Wood Library of Ornithology, the Bibliotheca Osleriana and other libraries of McGill University, Montreal.
A comprehensive summary and bibliography of the literature on vertebrate zoology. The first 170 pages are a narrative divided into 19 chapters, plus an index. The remainder is a "partially annotated catalogue" arrange…
1931
#213
Sinanthropus – Peking Man, its discovery and significance.
Elliot Smith visited Peking to view the skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis, discovered by W. C. Pei on December 2, 1929. A preliminary description by Pei is to be found in Bull. geol. Soc. China, 1929, 8, 3.
1931
#253.1
Evolution in Mendelian populations.
First detailed presentation of Wright’s quantitative theory of the effects of mutation, migration, selection, and population size on changes in gene frequencies in populations. Digital facsimile from Genetics.org at t…
1931
#9213
Medical men in the American Revolution 1775-1783.
Digital edition from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.
1931
#11777
Die Werke der Maria Sibylle Merian: bibliographisch Zusammengestellt.
1932
#351
The social life of monkeys and apes.
A study of the relationship of Man to the other primates, from the physiological and biochemical standpoint. Zuckerman’s work is considered the first adequate interpretation of simian society. 2nd ed., 1980.
1932
#254
The causes of evolution.
Haldane’s summary of his mathematical theory of natural selection. The detailed mathematical theory appeared as Mathematical theory of natural and artificial selection, first published (Pt. I) in Trans. Camb. philos. …
1933
#11233
A catalogue of the works of Linnaeus (and publications more immediately relating thereto) perserved in the libraries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) and the British Museum (Natural History) (South Kennsington). Second edition
Includes a vast number of works theses and orations, of works edited by or supervised by Linnaeus or written with his cooperation. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1934 –1938
#1781
The patient and the weather. With the assistance of Margaret E. Milliken. 4 vols. in 7.
1934
#2010
Traité de climatologie biologique et médicale. Publié sous la direction de M. Piéry. 3 vols.
1934
#145.66
The struggle for existence.
Gause developed the concept of competitive exclusion as formulated by Volterra.
1934
#5542
The cultivation and cultural characteristics of Darling’s Histoplasma capsulatum.
Demonstration of the fungal nature of the pathogen.
1934
#13637
