1893 WALES, Philip Skinner (1837 – 1906)
Catalogue of the exhibits in the Museum of Hygiene. Medical Department of the United States Navy.
GMN 10717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12911
1896 HOLMES, Edward Morrell (1843 – 1930)
Catalogue of the medicinal plants in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10382 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12574
1898 FLOWER, William Henry (1831 – 1899)
Essays on museums and other subjects connected with natural history.
Essays on medical and natural historical museums, anthropology, and biography. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 7670 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9842
1900 TEACHER, John Hammond (1869 – 1930); HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
Catalogue of the anatomical and pathological preparations of Dr. William Hunter in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9760
1904 HORTON-SMITH HARTLEY, Sir Percival (1867 – 1952); MULLINGS, William Thomas (1875 – 1949)
A descriptive catalogue of pathological specimens in the museum of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9824
1904 MURRAY, David (1842 – 1928)
Museums: Their history and their use with a bibliography and list of museums in the United Kingdom. 3 vols.
Volumes 2 and 3 are an exhaustive bibliography, thematic and geographic, of the historical literature of museums in Europe and the United States, including catalogues of museums published through the end of the 19th c…
GMN 7686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9858
1904 –1912 SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909); GÜNTHER, Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf) (1830 – 1914); THOMAS, Oldfield (1858 – 1929); LYDEKKER, Richard (1849 – 1915); BOULENGER, George Albert (1858 – 1937); POCOCKE, Reginald Innes (1863 – 1947); SMITH, Edgar Albert (1847 – 1916); KIRKPATRICK, Randolph (1863 – 1950)
The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. 3 vols. [Edited by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther.]
(Now the Natural History Museum, London). Vol. 1: Libraries; The Department of Botany; The Department of Geology; The Department of Minerals. Vol. 2.: Separate historical accounts of the several collections included i…
GMN 9318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11500
1907 –1951 WARTHIN, Aldred Scott (1866 – 1931); ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940)
Bulletin of the International Association of Medical Museums, Vols. 1-32. Edited by Maude E. Abbott, Alfred Scott Warthin, and others.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13494
1909 TURNER, Sir William (1832 – 1916)
Catalogue of the specimens in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh. Vol. 1.- Pathology. Edited by Sir William Turner.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10368 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12560
1910 KEITH, Sir Arthur (1866 – 1955)
Illustrated guide to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Vistor's guide to the museum, including the collections formed by John Hunter, when it was intact, before the destruction it suffered in World War II. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12556
1913 HORNADAY, William Temple (1854 – 1937)
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…
GMN 7436 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9608
1913 WELLCOME, Henry Solomon Sir (1853 – 1936)
Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum. Organised by Henry S. Wellcome.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8553 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10730
1915 ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940); GRÜNER, Oskar Cameron (1877 – 1972)
Descriptive catalogue of the medical museum of McGill University: Arranged on a modified decimal system of museum classification. Part IV: Section 1. The Haemopoietic organs.
All published
GMN 7638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9810
1924 –1929 MEISEL, Max
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.
GMN 7097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9264
1929 DAUKES, Sidney Herbert (1879 – 1947)
The medical museum: Modern developments, organisation and technical methods based on a new system of visual teaching.
GMN 7634 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9806
1936 ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH
Catalogue of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Part I. Comprehending the preparations illustrative of pathology.
"The letters B.C. ... signify that the preparation is part of an extensive collection purchased by the College from Sir Charles Bell...." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12897
1946 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); TURNER, George Grey (1877 – 1951)
The Hunterian Museum yesterday and to-morrow, being the Hunterian Oration for 1945 delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Remains one of the best accounts of the development of John Hunter's museum, and its development after Hunter's death, its partial destruction from bombing in World War II, and plans for reconstruction developed in th…
GMN 7641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9813
1962 MARSHALL, Alice J.; BURTON, John Adam Gib (1888 – 1962)
Catalogue of the pathological preparations of Dr. William Hunter, Sir William Macewen, Prof. John H. Teacher and Prof. J.A.G. Burton in the museum of the Pathology Dept., Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
GMN 7589 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9761
1964 HENRY, Robert S.
The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Its first century.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12646
1966 –1972 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); DOBSON, Jessie (1906 – 1984)
Descriptive catalogue of the pathological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England: A selection of surviving specimens illustrating [John] Hunter's opinions on the nature of diseases, experiments and observations on cases in surgery. 2 vols.
GMN 7500 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9672
1970 –1971 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); DOBSON, Jessie (1906 – 1984)
Descriptive catalogue of the physiological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2 vols.
Part 1: Surviving Hunterian specimens demonstrating those organs in plants and animals for the special purposes of the individual. Part 2: Hunterian specimens demonstrating the products of generation together with sur…
GMN 7550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9722
1970 HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783); MARSHALL, Alice J.
Catalogue of the anatomical preparations of Dr. William Hunter in the Museum of the Anatomy Department. From the original catalogue (1898-1900) prepared by Professor John Teacher.
GMN 7661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9833
1972 HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)
Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums.
Prepared for the opening in June 1971 of the Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry in Japan, and emphasizing that museum and museums in the Middle East.
GMN 13714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15998
1976 BUCCI, Mario
Anatomia come arte. 2nd ed.
Includes spectacular color plates of 19th-century wax models and earlier sculptures concerning anatomy.
GMN 6610.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8600
1976 CHALMERS-HUNT, J. M.
Natural history auctions 1700-1972. A register of sales in the British Isles compiled by J. M. Chalmers-Hunt. With articles by S. Peter Dance, Peter G. Embrey, W. D. Ian Rolfe, Clive Simson, William T. Stern, J. M. Chalmers-Hunt, Alwyne Wheeler.
Entomological sales by J.M. Chalmers-Hunt. Zoological Sales other than those of birds Insects and shells by Alwyne Wheeler Botanical Sales by William T. Stern Ornithology and Oology by Clive Simson Fossil Sales by W. …
GMN 13107 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15360
1978 ALTICK, Richard Daniel (1915 – 2008)
The shows of London.
Characterized on the dust jacket as "a panomaic history of exhibitions, 1600-1862." The first two chapters are a history of museums. Chapter 24, "The waxen and the fleshy", discusses "medica" or anatomical museums.
GMN 7697 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9869
1980 SELLERS, Charles Coleman (1903 – 1980); PEALE, Charles Willson (1741 – 1827)
Mr. Peale's museum: Charles Willson Peale and the first popular museum of natural science and art.
GMN 10444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12637
1981 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); RODIN, Alvin E.
Oslerian pathology: An assessment and annotated atlas of museum specimens.
Covers the 55 remaining specimens of pathological preparations by William Osler preserved at McGill University. The book is divided into 4 sections: A: presentation and discussion of those aspects of Osler's activitie…
GMN 10990 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13186
1982 TANSEY, Violet; MEKIE, D. E. C.
The museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
GMN 7676 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9848
1985 IMPEY, Oliver (1936 – 2005); MACGREGOR, Arthur (1936 – )
The origins of museums: The cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe.
A collective work edited by Impey and MacGregor.
GMN 7558 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9730
1985 KONIG, Petrus (1787 – 1834)
De wasmodellen van Petrus Koning. Achtergrondinformatie over en beschrijvende catalogus van de wasmodellen door Petrus Konig uit de collecties van het Anatomisch Museum, van de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht.
Annotated catalogue of wax models made by Konig; summary in English.
GMN 7607 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9779
1987 WATERSTON, Charles Dewar (1927 – ); STACE, Helen E.; PETTIT, Charles William A. (1937 – )
Natural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.
GMN 10897 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13093
1988 SCHNAPPER, Antoine (1933 – 2004)
Collections et collectionneurs dans la France du XVIIe siècle.
GMN 10605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12798
1992 GOULD, Stephen Jay (1941 – 2002); PURCELL, Rosamond Wolff (1942 – )
Finders, Keepers: Eight collectors.
A spectacular book on eight medical and natural history museums: text by Gould, superbly reproduced dramatic photographs by Purcell. Chapter 1: "Dutch treat: Peter the Great and Frederik Ruysch".
GMN 7570 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9742
1992 OLMI, Giuseppe
L'inventario del mondo: Catalogazione della natura e luoghi del sapere nella prima età moderna.
GMN 10561 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12754
1994 FINDLEN, Paula (1964 – )
Possessing nature: Museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy.
GMN 7561 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9733
1995 SCHNALKE, Thomas (1958 – )
Diseases in wax: A history of the medical moulage.
GMN 7499 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9671
1998 STONE, Sarah (1760 – 1844); JACKSON, Christine Elisabeth (1936 – )
Sarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the new worlds
GMN 10434 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12627
1998 HAUSNER, Ernst
The Fool's Tower: The Federal Pathological-Anatomical Museum at the Old General Hospital in Vienna.
GMN 10558 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12751
1999 KURZ, Hugo
Das Anatomische Museum Basel: Museumsführer.
GMN 7640 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9812
1999 TILLES, Gérard; WALLACH, Daniel
Les musées de médecine: Histoire, patrimoine et grandes figures de la médecine en France.
GMN 11065 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13261
2000 GROB, Bart; AUZOUX, Louis Thomas Jérôme (1797 – 1880)
The world of Auzoux: Models of man and beast in papier-maché.
GMN 13753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16037
2001 ASMA, Stephen T. (1966 – )
Stuffed animals and pickled heads: The culture and evolution of natural history museums.
GMN 7635 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9807
2001 QUIGLEY, Christine (1963 – )
Skulls and skeletons: Human bone collections and accumulations.
GMN 10707 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12901
2002 MAURIÈS, Patrick (1952 – )
Cabinets of curiosities.
GMN 7559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9731
2002 HOPWOOD, Nick
Embryos in wax: Models from the Ziegler studio.
GMN 7673 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9845
2002 MUTTER, Thomas Dent (1811 – 1859); WORDEN, Gretchen (1947 – 2004)
Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
A spectacular color photo-illustrated book on the Mütter Museum.
GMN 11122 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13318
2003 ARNOLD, Ken; OLSEN, Danielle
Medicine man: The forgotten medical museum of Henry Wellcome.
A collective work edited by Arnold and Olsen.
GMN 7560 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9732
2004 OLMI, Giuseppe
Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.
Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …
GMN 10560 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12753
2005 YANNI, Carla
Nature's museums: Victorian science and the architecture of display.
GMN 9119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11298
