1930 STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.
"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…
GMN 12459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14691
1934 STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948); BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982); SANDGROUND, Jack Henry (1899 – 1987); OCHOA, Miguel Muños
Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV
In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.
GMN 12575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14814
1935 HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825 – 1895); HUXLEY, Sir Julian Sorell (1887 – 1975)
T. H. Huxley's diary of the voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake. Edited from the unpublished ms
Huxley served as assistant surgeon and naturalist aboard the Rattlesnake (1845-50) which made cruises from Australia to Louisiade Archipelago, New Guinea and Cape York. His diary is illustrated with his own drawings.
GMN 7449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9621
1936 MOYNIHAN, Berkeley George Andrew (1865 – 1936)
Truants: The story of some who deserted medicine yet triumphed.
Discusses the careers of physicians who turned their attention to other pursuits, including Rabelais, Smollett, Doyle, Mitchell, and other writers as well as Livingstone and other explorers, etc.
GMN 8726 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10904
1938 SHATTUCK, George Cheever (1879 – 1972); BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982); SANDGROUND, Jack Henry (1899 – 1987); HILFERTY, Margaret M.; CLARK, Samuel Drury
A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.
Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12593 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14833
1942 HASKELL, Daniel Carl (1883 – 1968)
The United States Exploring Expedition and its publications, 1844–1874: A bibliography
Reprinted with additions and corrections from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February 1940 and January, July and October 1941.
GMN 9824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12012
1956 MCKELVEY, Susan Delano (1883 – 1964)
Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.
Reprinted with a new introduction and bibliographical supplement by Stephen Dow Beckham, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1991.
GMN 7238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9407
1965 HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983); WONG, Ming (1926 – 1989)
Bio-bibliographie de quelques médecins naturalistes voyageurs de la marine au début du XIXe siècle. Colloque International sur L'Histoire de la Biologie Marine. Les grandes expéditions scientifiques et la création des laboratoires maritimes. 2-6 septembre 1963. Supplément no. 19 à "Vie et Milieu", pp. 163-223.
GMN 9598 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11785
1965 KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922); FOSKETT, Reginald (1909 – 1973)
The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr. John Kirk, 1858-63. Edited by Reginald Foskett. 2 vols.
GMN 12420 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14650
1966 GOETZMANN, William H. (1930 – 2010)
Exploration and empire: The explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West.
GMN 9827 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12015
1972 LINKLATER, Eric (1899 – 1974)
The voyage of the Challenger.
GMN 9628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11815
1975 GERBI, Antonello (1904 – 1976)
La natura delle Indie Nove: Da Christoforo Colombo a Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo.
Translated into English by Jeremy Moyle as Nature in the new world: From Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. Primarily a detailed analysis of the work…
GMN 9961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12150
1979 CHUINARD, Eldon G. (1904 – 1993)
Only one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Appendix 1 contains a listing of the many medical books in the library of Thomas Jefferson.
GMN 7190 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9357
1980 –1990 BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820); SOLANDER, Daniel Carlsson (1733 – 1782); PARKINSON, Sydney (1745 – 1771)
Banks' Florilegium: A publication in thirty-four parts [plus 1 supplement] of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage around the world in the H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771. The specimens were gathered and classified by The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Daniel Solander, and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784 after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson. 35 large folio solander boxes & 1 vol. text.
Banks' Florilegium has been called the largest fine art printing project of the 20th century. It is the first complete publication in color of the 734 folio size copperplate engravings of newly discovered plants colle…
GMN 9495 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11680
1983 BROSSE, Jacques (1922 – 2008)
Les tours du monde des explorateurs. Les grands voyages maritimes, 1764-1843.
Translated into English by Stanley Hochman as Great voyages of discovery: Circumnavigators and scientists, 1764-1843. (New York: Facts on File, 1983).
GMN 7563 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9735
1984 SPILLANE, John David (1909 – 1985)
Medical travelers: Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
Anthology of selections from the writings of some of the more famous English physician travellers.
GMN 7189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9356
1985 VIOLA, Herman J.; MARGOLIS, Carolyn
Magnificent voyagers: The U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Edited by Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis.
GMN 9854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12042
1990 SMITH, Anthony (1926 – 2014)
Explorers of the Amazon.
The author was a noted explorer.
GMN 9234 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11416
1992 FOGG, Gordon Elliott (1919 – 2005)
A history of Antarctic science.
GMN 7372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9544
1995 GROVE, Richard Hugh (1955 – )
Green imperialism: Colonial expansion, tropical island edens and the origins of environmentalism 1600–1860.
"... the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, Physiocra…
GMN 9881 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12069
1996 RABY, Peter
Bright paradise: Victorian scientific travellers.
GMN 7458 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9630
1997 DEACON, Margaret Elsa
Scientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.
GMN 7370 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9542
1998 SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001); LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816); JARAMILLO-ARANGO, María José Nemry von Thenen de
The journals of Hippolito Ruiz: Spanish botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria José Nemry von Thenen de Jarmillo-Arango.
GMN 13325 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15592
1999 CARTER, Edward C. II (1928 – 2002)
Surveying the record: North American scientific exploration to 1930, edited by Edward C. Carter II.
GMN 7371 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9543
1999 RICE, Tony
Voyages of discovery: Three centuries of natural history exploration.
Spectacular color images including many of original paintings and manuscripts.
GMN 7562 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9734
1999 LIEBOWITZ, Daniel (1921 – 2014); KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
The physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.
GMN 8694 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10871
c. 2000 SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
Smithsonian Libraries: Digital Library: Natural and physical sciences.
https://library.si.edu/digital-library/natural-and-physical-sciences "About Our Collections "The Libraries' physical collections comprise 1.5 million books and manuscripts, along with over 400,000 pieces of ephemera, …
GMN 9826 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12014
2002 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882); VAN WYHE, John (1971 – )
Darwin Online. The complete works of Charles Darwin, edited by John van Wyhe.
http://darwin-online.org.uk/AboutUs.html Darwin's Complete Publications Books Origin of Species, Voyage of the Beagle, Descent of Man... Articles Volcanic, Darwin-Wallace paper... Published Letters Life and letters, D…
GMN 8706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10884
2002 HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OPEN COLLECTIONS PROGRAM
Expeditions & discoveries: Sponsored exploration and scientific discovery in the modern age.
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/expeditions/index.html "The fourth in a series of online collections from Harvard University, Expeditions and Discoveries delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as well as fiel…
GMN 9825 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12013
2004 SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
Plants and empire: Colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world.
GMN 9861 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12049
2004 LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873); WISNICKI, Adrian S.
Livingstone Online: Illuminating imperial exploration. Adrian S. Wisnicki, director.
http://livingstoneonline.org/ "The "About This Site" section of Livingstone Online describes some of the key elements of this site, including our goals, mission, and staff. The section also includes a set of essays de…
GMN 9920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12108
2007 –2010 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); HANSEN, Lars
The Linnaeus Apostles. Global science & adventure. 8 vols. in 11. General editor: Lars Hansen.
Vol. 1: Introduction Vol. 2: Europe, Arctic & Asia. Anton Rolandsson Martin, Johan Peter Falck Vol. 3: Europe, North & South America. Pehr Kalm, Pehr Löfling, Daniel Rolander Vol. 4: Europe, Middle East, North East & …
GMN 13034 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15284
2008 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
The Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.
http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage "This on-going project aims to locate, digitise, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish the surviving correspondence and other manuscripts of the important 19th centur…
GMN 13653 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15934
2009 MCCALMAN, Iain Duncan (1947 – )
Darwin's armada: Four voyages and the battle for the theory of evolution.
Discusses the voyages by Darwin, Huxley, Hooker and Wallace that informed their key Victorian works on the theory of evolution.
GMN 10098 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12287
2010 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project. Digitising the personal and scientific correspondence of the 19th century botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker.
https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/projects/joseph-hooker-correspondence-project "Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 – 1911) was a trailblazing botanist and explorer and Kew’s second Director. Detailing plant diversi…
GMN 13652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15933
2011 KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922); HAZELL, Alastair
The last slave market: Dr. John Kirk and the struggle to end the East African slave trade.
GMN 12421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14651
2012 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913); VAN WYHE, John (1971 – )
Wallace online, directed by John van Wyhe.
http://wallace-online.org/ "Wallace Online is the first complete edition of the writings of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, including the first compilation of his specimens. The project is directed by John van Wyhe,…
GMN 8707 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10885
2013 WILLIAMS, Glyndwr
Naturalists at sea: Scientific travelers from Dampier to Darwin.
GMN 7192 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9359
2013 MADRIÑÁN RESTROPO, Santiago; JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von (1727 – 1817)
Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American plants: Botanical expedition to the Caribbean (1754-1759) and the publication of the Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia.
GMN 8286 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10462
2014 MÜNZER, Hieronymus (1437 – 1508)
Doctor Hieronymus Münzer's itinerary (1494 and 1495) and the discovery of Guinea. Edited and translated by James Firth.
GMN 13887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16177
2016 TROELSTRA, Anne Sjerp (1939 – )
Bibliography of natural history travel narratives.
The author is a professor of mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. Besides treatment of earlier literature, this bibliography includes many lesser known 20th century works.
GMN 7964 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10140
2016 LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, Published by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program.
http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm "The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a seri…
GMN 9922 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12110
2019 FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798); MARISS, Anne
Johann Reinhold Forster and the making of natural history on Cook's Second Voyage, 1772–1775
GMN 11528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13727
