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1,480 entries match Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]
1912
#6609
Plastik und Medizin.
1912
#6917
Interferenz-Erscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen. . . . Eine quantitative Prüfung der Theorie für die Interferenz-Erscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen
Discovery of the diffraction of X-rays in crystals. Laue’s discovery was of dual importance: it allowed the subsequent investigation of X-radiation by means of wavelength determination, and it provided the means for t…
1912
#7050
The Negro in medicine.
An early publication on the medical problems of blacks written by a black physician. Kenney served as school physician at Tuskegee University, was the first director of the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital at Tuskegee…
1912
#7482
The depths of the ocean. A general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian Steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.
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
#11288
A review of the primates. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1912
#11812
Coral and atolls. A history and description of the Keeling-Cocos Islands, with an account of their fauna and flora, and a discussion of the method of development and transformation of coral structures in general.
Wood Jones was one of the first to study coral reefs as living organisms interacting with their environment. Prior to Wood Jones's book most of the work on corals was done from the systematics viewpoint using specimen…
1913
#349
A textbook of medical entomology.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1913
#527.1
The mechanism of fertilization.
1913
#245.5
Non-disjunction of the sex chromosome of Drosophila.
Bridges discovered non-disjunction, failure of chromosome pairs to segregate regularly during meiosis.
1913
#6919
The diffraction of short electromagnetic waves by a crystal.
At the age of 22, Bragg discovered that the regular pattern of dots produced on a photographic plate by an X-ray beam passing through a crystal could be regarded as a reflection of electromagnetic radiation from plane…
1913
#6920
The reflection of x-rays by crystals.
Discovery of X-ray crystallography. The father and son team of physicists, William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg, constructed the first X-ray spectrometer using crystals as gratings, using a known wavelength …
1913
#7075
Animal communities in temperate America as illustrated in the Chicago region. A study in animal ecology.
This book represents the beginning of organized theoretical principles for animal ecology, including Shelford's "law of toleration" or "law of tolerance." "Analogous to the physiologists' law of the minimum [developed…
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…
1914 –1915
#561
Mitochondria and other cytoplasmic structures in tissue cultures.
Original investigations upon the visible mitochondria.
1914
#5138
Plague and pestilence in literature and art.
Deals with the subject up to the end of the 18th century. Revised ed., 1951.
1914
#7759
Zur Frage der Entstehung maligner Tumoren.
Boveri argued that malignancy arises as a consequence of chromosomal abnormalities, and that multiplication is an inherent property of cells. He predicted the existence of tumor suppressor mechanisms and was perhaps t…
1914
#13877
Book of monsters.
The first book of macro photographs (extreme close-up photography) of insects.
1915
#2571
An investigation on the nature of ultra-microscopic viruses.
Twort discovered discovered bacteriophages, a type of virus that attacks bacteria (the term bacteriophage was coined by Félix d’Herelle, who in 1917 independently confirmed Twort’s discovery). The discovery of bacteri…
1915
#9646
X rays and crystal structure.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1915
#13031
Das Martyrium der heiligen Apollonia und seine Darstellung in der bildenden Kunst.
Illustrates with 100 plates various early depictions of the martyrdom of St. Apollonia, patron saint of dentistry. Saint Apollonia was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria, Egypt during a local …
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
#8154
Plant succession: An analysis of the development of vegetation.
A seminal work of ecological science, establishing a dynamic model of species succession toward an eventual "climax" equilibrium under the influence of climate and other factors in a given habitat. "From his observati…
1916
#10817
Poetry and the doctors: A catalogue of poetical works written by physicians with biographical notes & An essay on the poetry of certain ancient practitioners of medicine, illustrated with translations from the Latin and by reproductions of the title pages of the rarer works.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1916
#11854
The theory of the free-martin.
Lillie found that sex steroids in the blood controlled differentiation. "Free-martins, sterile female cows born without sex organs, were a perplexing issue for cattle ranchers. Lillie found that free-martins formed wh…
1916
#14094
The differentiation of cells as a criterion for cell identification, considered in relation to the small cortical cells of the thymus.
First use of the term "stem cells" in English. Digital facsimile from rupress.org at this link.
1917
#6972
On growth and form.
Thompson's description of the mathematical beauty of nature eventually inspired others, such as Alan Turing, to develop the scientific explanation of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns are formed in plants a…
1917
#7494
Der Vierfarbendruck in der Gefolgschaft Jacob Christoffel Le Blons mit Oeuvre-Verzeichnissen der Familie Gautier-Dagoty, J. Roberts, J. Ladmirals und C. Lasinios
1917
#9988
Das homerische Tiersystem und seine Bedeutung für die zoologische Systematik des Aristoteles.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1917
#12539
Blight: The tragedy of Dublin: An exposition in 3 acts.
Gogarty, an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist, served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Blight: The Tragedy of Dublin was "o…
1918
#8821
American Negro slavery: A survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime.
Incudes information on health and medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1918
#9986
Ueber die Pharmaka in der Ilias und Odyssee.
Medicines and poisons in the Iliad and Odyssey.
1918 –1922
#12228
A monograph of the pheasants. 4 vols.
Beebe's spectacular work, with 90 colored plates of birds and 88 photogravure plates of habitats and scenery, has been called the greatest ornithological treatise of the 20th century. Illustrators included Henrik Grön…
1918
#13834
La médecine dans notre théâtre comique, depuis ses origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle...
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1919
#10741
The journal of a disappointed man. With an introduction by H. G. Wells.
Published under the pseudonym, Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion. "Cummings' life changed forever when he was called to enlist in the British Army to fight in World War I in November 1915. He had consulted his doctor bef…
1919
#11486
The amoebae living in man; a zoological monograph.
"I have attempted in this monograph to give an accurate and concise account of all the amoebae which live in human beings." Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1919
#11739
In Flanders fields and other poems by John McCrae. With an essay in character by Sir Andrew MacPhail.
McCrae's poem, In Flanders Fields, was among the most popular poems of World War I. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, w…
1919 –1968
#12828
Life histories of North American Birds. 23 vols.
One of the most comprehensive repositories of North American ornithology, published over 50 years, in a series of volumes in the United States National Museum Bulletin. Bent used his own experiences traveling over the…
1920
#529
Mechanismus und Physiologie der Geschlechtsbestimmung.
Translated into English William J. Dakin as The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination (London: Methuen & Co., 1923). Digital facsimile of the 1920 edition from Google Books at this link. Digital facsimile of t…
1920 –1939
#136
Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden. Edited by Emil Abderhalden. 14 vols. in 107.
The Hathi Trust maintains versions of all 107 parts, most of which are searchable to a limited extent, at this link.
1920
#7000
The growth and shedding of the antlers of the deer. The histological phenomena and their relation to the growth of bone.
The first study of the unusual and dramatic physiology of the annual growth and shedding of the antlers of deer. "The amount of bony matter annually secreted to form antlers of the larger deer is enormous, antlers of …
1920
#11295
A physician's anthology of English and American poetry. Selected and arranged by Casey A. Wood and Fielding H. Garrison.
Prepared for William Osler's seventieth birthday but not completed in time. Selections were approved by Osler, and the anthology was in publication when Osler died. Osler looked forward to the volume. Less than a mont…
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
#6609.1
Wunder, Wundgeburt und Wundergestalt in Einblattdrucken des 15-18. Jahrhunderts.
History of teratology in art from 15th to 18th centuries.
1922 –1931
#7649
Das Leben des Menschen. Eine volkstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. 5 vols.
By developing a new infographics style of illustration in which physiological processes and other technical medical and biological concepts were often depicted as, or compared to machines, Kahn made medical and biolog…
1922
#9985
Die homerische Medizin. Eine medizin-kulturhistorische Skizze.
Medicine in Homer.
1922
#10819
Montaigne and medicine; being the essayist's comments on contemporary physic and physicians; his thoughts on many material matters relating to life and death; an account of his bodily ailments and peculiarities and of his travels in search of health.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1923
#138
