1840 WILDE, Sir William Robert Wills (1815 – 1876)
Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history, antiquities, etc, of the countries visited. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15455
1840 WILDE, Sir William Robert Wills (1815 – 1876)
Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history, antiquities, etc. of the countries visited. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16161
1841 –1854 DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César (1790 – 1842); DUMOUTIER, Pierre-Marie-Alexandre (1797 – 1873); BLANCHARD, Charles Émile (1819 – 1900); JACQUINOT, Charles Hector (1796 – 1879); HOMBRON, Jacques Bernard (1798 – 1852); PUCHERAN, Jacques (1817 – 1895); GUICHENOT, Antoine Alphonse (1809 – 1876); LUCAS, H.; ROUSSEAU, L.; MONTAGNE, Jean Pierre François Camille (1784 – 1866); DECAISNE, Joseph (1807 – 1882); GRANGE, J.; VINCENDON-DUMOULIN, Clément Adrien (1811 – 1858); COUPVENT-DESBOIS, Aimé Auguste Élie (1814 – 1892)
Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée, exécuté...pendant...1837-1840, sous le commandement de M. J. DUMONT D'URVILLE... publié... sour la direction supérieure de M. [C. H.] Jacquinot, &c. 23 vols. in 22.
In 1836 King Louis-Philippe, enthusiastic for Southern Hemisphere exploration, sponsored Dumont d'Urville's plan for a circumnavigation focusing on the South Seas. D'Urville had already distinguished himself on two Pa…
GMN 11902 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14107
1841 GREY, Sir George (1812 – 1898)
Journals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39...describing many new discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical conditions of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. 2 vols.
"In 1837, at the age of 25, Grey led an ill-prepared expedition that explored North-West Australia. British settlers in Australia at the time knew little of the region and only one member of Grey's party had been ther…
GMN 13014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15264
1842 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
The structure and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R. N. During the years 1832 to 1836.
With slight modification, Darwin's work remains the accepted explanation for these phenomena. "Even if he had done nothing else, the theory of the coral islands alone would have placed Darwin in the very front of inve…
GMN 8916 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11094
1842 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)
Travels in Europe and the East, embracing observations made during a tour through Great Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Saxony, Bohemia, Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland, Lombardy, Tuscany, the Papal States, the Neapolitan Dominions, Malta, the Islands of the Archipelago, Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, Turkey, Moldavia, Wallachia, and Hungary in the years 1834, '35, '36, '37, '38, '39, '40, and '41.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11693 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13894
1842 LAY, George Tradescant (1800 – 1845); BEECHEY, Frederick William (1796 – 1856); HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (1785 – 1865); WALKER-ARNOTT, George Arnott (1799 – 1868); COLLIE, Alexander (1793 – 1835)
The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage; comprising an account of the plants collected by Messrs Lay and Collie, and other officers of the expedition during the voyage to the Pacific and Bering's Strait, performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey...in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 11764 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13965
1843 –1859 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843.
Part 1: Flora of Lord Auckland and Campbell's Islands (1843-45); Part 2: Flora of Fuegia, the Falklands, Karguellen's land, etc. (1845-47); Part 3: Flora of New Zealand. 2 vols. (1851-53); Part 4: Flora of Tasmania. 2…
GMN 7448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9620
1843 –1844 HINDS, Richard Brinsley (1811 – 1846); GRAY, John Edward (1800 – 1875); GOULD, John (1804 – 1881); RICHARDSON, Sir John (1787 – 1865)
The zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Sulphur, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1836-42. Edited and superintended by Richard Brinsley Hinds. Vol. 1: Mammalia by J.E. Gray; Birds by J. Gould; Fish by J. Richardson. Vol. 2.: Mollusca by R. B. Hinds.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9167 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11346
1843 HINDS, Richard Brinsley (1811 – 1846)
The regions of vegetation; being an analysis of the distribution of vegetable forms over the surface of the globe in connexion with climate and physical agents.
Digital facsimile of the copy presented by Hinds to Charles Darwin, with Darwin's annotations, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. This work also appeared as a section of Edward Belcher's Narrative of…
GMN 9168 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11347
1843 MCWILLIAM, James Ormiston (1808 – 1862)
Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-42, comprising an account of the fever which led to its abrupt termination.
McWilliam included a history of yellow fever, pathology, description of symptoms, sequences, causes, treatment. He also described the state of medicine among the Africans. He specifically described the ventilation of …
GMN 10737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12932
1843 CLARKE, Robert B.
Sierra Leone: A Description of the manners and customs of the liberated Africans; with observations upon the natural history of the colony, and a notice of the native tribes.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12660 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14904
1844 HINDS, Richard Brinsley (1811 – 1846); BENTHAM, George (1800 – 1884)
The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher....Edited and superintended by Richard Brinsley Hinds. The botanical descriptions by George Bentham.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9169 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11348
1844 WILKES, Charles (1798 – 1877)
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. 5 vols. plus atlas.
The United States Exploring Expedition was the first United States scientific expedition by sea. Wilkes' six ships ranged from Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and Peru, to Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand,…
GMN 9823 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12011
1844 FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798); LICHTENSTEIN, Martin Hinrich Carl (1780 – 1857)
Descriptiones animalium quae in itinere ad Maris Australis Terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto
Forster was the naturalist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage, during which he was accompanied by his son Georg. His Descriptiones animalium was completed within a month of returning to England with Cook, but remai…
GMN 11526 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13725
1844 MAGENDIE, François (1783 – 1855); JAMES, Constantin (1813 – 1888)
Voyage scientifique à Naples avec M. Magendie en 1843.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 11666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13867
1850 TYSON, James Lawrence
Diary of a physician in California; being the results of actual experience, including notes of the journey by land and water, and observations on the climate, soil, resources of the country, etc.
Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. His book recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical pract…
GMN 10426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12619
1851 HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin (1795 – 1869)
Früchte aus dem Morgenlande oder Reise-Erlebnisse. Nebst naturhistorisch-medicinischen Erfahrungen, einigen hundert erprobten Arzneimitteln und einer neuen Heilart dem Medial-Systeme. Mit vierzig lithographirten Tafeln: Porträte, Pflanzenabbildungen, sonstige Natur- und Kunstprodukte, Facsimile, Landkarte und Ansicht der Citadelle von Lahor; endlich als Anhang ein medizinisches Wörterbuch in mehreren europäischen und orientalischen Sprachen.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Translated into English (1852) as Thirty-five years in the East. Adventures, discoveries, experiments, and historical sketches, relating to the Pu…
GMN 9515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11700
1852 MACGILLIVRAY, John (1821 – 1867)
Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley ...during the years 1846-1850, including discoveries and surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, etc. to which is added the account of Mr. E. B. Kennedy's Expedition for the exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. 2 vols.
Macgillivray was naturalist to the expedition. Thomas Huxley served as assistant surgeon on this voyage; Huxley's diary of the voyage was first published posthumously in 1935. See No. 7449. Digital facsimile of MacGil…
GMN 7451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9623
1853 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account of the native tribes and observations on the climate, geology and natural history of the Amazon Valley.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9617
1854 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
Himalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9619
1854 GARNIER, Pierre (1819 – 1901)
Voyage médical en Californie.
Translated into English by L. Jay Oliva, introduced and annotated by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. as A medical journey in California (Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1967).
GMN 10404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12597
1857 LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
Missionary travels and researches in South Africa.
Livingstone gave an accurate account of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans and of the disease in cattle following its bite (see pp. 80-83; picture of the tsetse fly on p. 571). In his time the bite of the fly was thoug…
GMN 5269 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8570
1858 HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph (1820 – 1885)
Impressions of Western Africa. With remarks on the diseases of the climate and a report on the peculiarities of trade up the rivers in the Bight of Biafra.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14715
1859 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the Flora of Tasmania. Offprint from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, Vol. III (Flora Tasmaniae), part I (June, 1859).
The first important botanical work by a supporter of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Hooker, a botanist and plant geographer, had been a close friend of Darwin for many years, and was aware of Darwi…
GMN 7446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9618
1860 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
The Malay archipelago: The land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise. 2 vols.
GMN 7439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9611
1863 BATES, Henry Walter (1825 – 1892)
The naturalist on the river Amazons, a record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9614
1865 CHEADLE, Walter Butler (1836 – 1910); WENTWORTH-FITZWILLIAM, William Viscount Milton (1839 – 1877)
The North-West passage by land. Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains.
Together with William Fitzwilliam (Viscount Milton), Cheadle travelled up the Athabasca River and in 1863 they became the first "tourists" to travel through the Yellowhead Pass. Arriving in Quebec City in July 1862, t…
GMN 12659 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14903
1871 CUNNINGHAM, Robert Oliver (1841 – 1918)
Notes on the natural history of the Strait of Magellan and the west coast of Patagonia made during the voyage of HMS 'Nassau' in the years 1866, 67, 68, & 69.
Cunningham, a physician, was naturalist aboard the Nassau, a steamer sent to survey the Strait of Magellan and the adjacent channels. This book contains a narrative of the voyage and natural history descriptions. Cunn…
GMN 12475 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14708
1873 THOMSON, Charles Wyville (1830 – 1882)
The depths of the sea. An account of the general results of the dredging cruises of H. M. SS. 'Porcupine' and 'Lightning during the summers of 1868, 1869, and 1870, under the scientific direction of Dr. Carpenter, F.R.S., J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., and Dr. Wyville Thomson, F.R.S.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7483 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9655
1874 BELT, Thomas (1832 – 1878)
The naturalist in Nicaragua: A narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales; journeys in the savannahs and forests, with observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms.
In this book Belt first described "the mutualistic relationship of certain Acacias and the ant we now know as Pseudomyrmex spinicola. These are a species of red myrmecophyte-inhabiting neotropical ants which are found…
GMN 7443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9615
1874 LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873); WALLER, Horace (1833 – 1896)
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa. From eighteen hundred and sixty-five to his death. Continued by a narrative of his last Moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller, F.R.G.S.
"Livingstone’s most famous expedition was in 1866–73, when he traversed much of central Africa in an attempt to find the source of the Nile. This book contains the daily journals that Livingstone kept on this expediti…
GMN 12705 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14950
1875 JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
Influence de la pression de l’air sur la vie de l’homme. Climats d'altitude et climats du montagne. 2 vols.
Jourdanet’s observational work in remote areas of Latin America and Asia produced important evidence for Bert’s proof that altitude sickness is due to anoxemia. In La pression barométrique (No. 944) Bert described how…
GMN 943.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/201
1877 THOMSON, Charles Wyville (1830 – 1882)
The voyage of the "Challenger": The Atlantic: A preliminary account of the general results of th exploring voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" during the year 1873 and the early part of the year 1876. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of the first American edition (1878) from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 7484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9656
1877 STILLMAN, Jacob David Babcock (1819 – 1888)
Seeking the golden fleece: A record of pioneer life in California, to which is annexed footprints of early navigators, other than Spanish, in California, with an account of the voyage of the schooner Dolphin.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12324 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14547
1879 MOSELEY, Henry Nottidge (1844 – 1891)
Notes by a naturalist on the Challenger; being an account of observations made during the Voyage of H.M.S.Challenger round the world in the years 1872-1876. Under the Command of Capt. Sir G. S.Nares and Capt. F. T. Thomson.
Includes descriptions of the natural history of Teneriffe, St. Thomas, Bermuda; Azores, Madeira, Cape Verdes; St. Paul’s Rocks and Fernando Do Norhona; Bahia; Tristan Da Cunha, Inaccessible Island; Nightingale Island;…
GMN 9627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11814
1880 ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600); MARKHAM, Sir Robert Clements (1830 – 1916)
The natural & moral history of Indies, by Father Joseph de Acosta. Reprinted from the English translated edition of Edward Grimston, 1604. And edited, with notes and an introduction by Clements R. Markham. Vol. 1: The natural history. Vol. 2: The moral history. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11155
1880 –1895 MURRAY, John (1841 – 1914); THOMSON, Charles Wyville (1830 – 1882); NARES, George Strong (1831 – 1915)
Report on the scientific results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76, under the command of Captain George S. Nares… and Captain Frank Tourle Thomson. 42 vols. in 50.
This work edited by John Murray and Charles Wyville Thomson, and completed by Murray after Thomson's death, was published over a 15 year period, and included about 29,500 pages and more than 3,280 plates. It treated i…
GMN 9626 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11813
1890 BÜTTIKOFER, Johann (1850 – 1928)
Reisebilder aus Liberia: Resultate geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnographischer untersuchungen während der jahre 1879-1882 und 1886-1887. 2 vols.
The first comprehensive monograph on the Republic of Liberia, published 50 years after its colonization by freed American slaves and their descendents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Transla…
GMN 8287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10463
1896 BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820); HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks...during Captain Cook's first voyage in H.M.S. Edeavour in 1766-71 to Terra de Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies. Etc. Edited by Sir Joseph D. Hooker.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 12949 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15196
1897 AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851); COUES, Elliott Ladd (1842 – 1899); AUDUBON, Maria Rebecca (1843 – 1925)
Audubon and his journals by Maria R. Audubon. With zoological and other notes by Elliott Coues. 2 vols.
A biographical study by his grand-daughter, based on previously unpublished letters and journals of John James Audubon. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15046
1907 HAMILTON, Alexander (1712 – 1756)
Hamilton's Itinerarium; being a narrative of a journey from Annapolis, Maryland, through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, from May to September, 1744, Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart.
Hamilton's Itinerarium was first issued by Albert Bushnell Hart in an edition privately printed by William K. Bixby, St. Louis, Missouri, 1907. It was republished as Gentleman's progress: the Itinerarium of Dr. Alexan…
GMN 7364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9536
1908 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913); SPRUCE, Richard (1817 – 1893)
Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastas; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific during the years 1849-1864. Edited and condensed by Alfred Russel Wallace..., with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9616
1912 MURRAY, John (1841 – 1914); HJORT, Johan (1869 – 1948)
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.
GMN 7482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9654
1915 TYZZER, Ernest Edward (1875 – 1965); STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948); SELLARDS, Andrew Watson (1884 – 1941); BRUES, Charles Thomas (1879 – 1955); GASTIABURU, J. C.; HARVARD SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE
Report of first expedition to South America 1913.
Strong was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard. The Harvard School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1913, the year they undertook this expedition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12573 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14812
1917 YOUNG, Francis Brett (1884 – 1954)
Marching on Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa).
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12500 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14733
1922 MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
South America from a surgeon's point of view.
Martin, "Director-General, American College of Surgeons," and Managing Editor, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, visited South American with William J. Mayo, who wrote the introduction. Digital facsimile from Google…
GMN 8712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10890
1926 STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948); SHATTUCK, George Cheever (1879 – 1972); BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982); WHEELER, Ralph Emerson (1901 – 1980)
Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925
"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…
GMN 12574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14813
1927 MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
South America, amplified to include all of Latin America: The Vandyck Cruise.
Medical visits to Latin America on behalf of the American College of Surgeons, of which Martin was a founder. Includes chapters by William J. Mayo, among others.
GMN 8711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10889
1928 HUTTON, Lady Isabel Galloway Emslie (1887 – 1960)
With a woman's unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol.
Hutton, a physician who specialized in mental and nervous disorders, began working with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, a voluntary organisation established by her older colleague Elsie Inglis, in 1915 first in France…
GMN 12605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14845
