1839 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle ....
Darwin’s first published book, now universally known as The Voyage of the Beagle, is the most often read and the most often printed of all his works, after On the origin of species. Its relation to the background of D…
GMN 7438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9610
1840 WÜSTENFELD, Heinrich Ferdinand (1808 – 1899)
Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher.
This has traditionally been considered the first major history of Arab medicine. It was written mostly in the form of a chronological series of bio-bibliographies, and should also be considered a pioneering bibliograp…
GMN 6502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8045
1840 –1843 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892); DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882); GOULD, John (1804 – 1881); BELL, Thomas (1792 – 1880); WATERHOUSE, George Robert (1810 – 1888); JENYNS, Leonard (1800 – 1893)
The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R. N., during the years 1832 to 1836. Edited by Charles Darwin. 5 pts in 3 vols.
Part 1: Fossil mammalia by Richard Owen; Part 2: Mammalia by George Waterhouse; Part 3: Birds by John Gould; Part 4: Fish by Leonard Jenyns; Part 5: Reptiles by Thomas Bell. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive…
GMN 7437 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9609
1842 DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837); WESTWOOD, John Obadiah (1805 – 1893)
Natural history of the insects of China, containing upwards of two hundred and twenty figures and descriptions by E. Donovan. A new edition, brought down to the present state of the science, with systematic characters of each species, synonyms, indexes, and other additional matter by J. O. Westwood.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Archive at this link.
GMN 9083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11262
1842 –1894 HALL, James Jr. (1811 – 1898); DE KAY, James Ellsworth (1792 – 1851)
[New York Natural History and Geological Survey.] Natural history of New York. 30 vols.
The New York Natural History and Geological Survey was established by the state legislature in 1836 under the direction of James Ellsworth DeKay. By far the most ambitious scientific project undertaken in the United S…
GMN 12480 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14713
1842 –1843 GERVAIS, François Louis Paul (1816 – 1879); LE MAOUT, Jean-Emmanuel-Marie (1799 – 1877); COUAILHAC, Jean-Joseph-Louis (1810 – 1885); BERNARD, Pierre (1810 – 1876)
Le Jardin des plantes. Description complete, historique et pittoresque du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, de la ménagerie, des serres, des galeries de minéralogie et d'anatomie, et de la vallée suisse. Moeurs et instincts des animaux, botanique, anatomie comparée : minéralogie, géologie, zoologie. 2 vols. Title of vol. 2: Le jardin des plantes. Description complète, historique et pittoresque du Muséum d'histoire naturelle (oiseaux, reptiles, poissons, insectes et crustacés), par M. le docteur Emm. Lemaout.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13402 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15674
1844 –1871 GAY, Claude [Claudio] (1800 – 1893)
Historia fisica y politica de Chile, segun documentos adquiridos en esta Republica durante doce años de residencia en ella .... 28 vols. text plus 2 vols. atlas. (30 vols.).
Gay, a French botanist, was commissioned in 1830 by the government of Chile to carry out a thorough scientific survey of the country, and to produce a detailed description of its geography, geology and natural history…
GMN 9067 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11246
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
1845 –1854 AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851); BACHMAN, John (1790 – 1874)
The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. 2 vols. of plates in folio; 3 vols. 8vo text.
The largest and most significant color plate book produced in America during the 19th century.
GMN 7769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9941
1845 –1862 HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 – 1859)
Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. 5 vols. and atlas.
This work includes founding material in geography, plant geography, orography, climatology and meterology, among other sciences, and citations to 9,000 sources. The atlas was issued without Humboldt's participation, a…
GMN 8223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10399
1847 –1847 HOLBROOK, John Edwards (1794 – 1871)
Southern ichthyology; or a description of the fishes inhabiting the waters of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Pt. 2, 1847, Pt. 3, 1848.
Holbrook never published part one of this work.
GMN 10336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12528
1853 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
Palm trees of the Amazon.
Wallace's first book, printed in an edition of only 250 copies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10418
1854 GRATACAP, Paul-Antoine (CAP) (1788 – 1877)
Le Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Histoire de la fondation et les développements successifs de l'établissement; Biographie des hommes célèbres qui y ont contribué par leur enseignement ou par leurs découvertes, histoire des recherches, des voyages, des applications utiles auxquels le muséum a donné lieu, pour les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture; description des galeries, du jardin, des serres et de la ménagerie.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15605
1856 CASSIN, John (1813 – 1869)
Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. 1853 to 1855.
Originally issued in ten parts from 1853 to 1855. Cassin ran an engraving and lithographing firm in Philadelphia, which produced illustrations for government and scientific publications. He pursued ornithology as an a…
GMN 7875 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10047
1857 –1877 AGASSIZ, Louis Jean Rodolphe (1807 – 1873); AGASSIZ, Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe (1835 – 1910)
Contributions to the natural history of the United States. 5 vols.
Vols. 1-4 by Louis Agassiz were published from 1857-1862; Vol. 5, North American starfishes by Alexander Agassiz, appeared in 1877. Louis Agassiz was, for his time, the leading comparative anatomist in America and a v…
GMN 333 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/217
1857 –1859 TORREY, John (1796 – 1873); EMORY, William Hemsley (1811 – 1887); BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton (1823 – 1887); CONRAD, Timothy Abbott (1803 – 1877); ENGELMANN, George (1809 – 1884); GIRARD, Charles Frédéric (1822 – 1895); PARRY, Charles Christopher (1823 – 1890); SCHOTT, Arthur Carl Victor (1814 – 1875); HALL, James Jr. (1811 – 1898)
Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior
Vol. 1, pt. by W. H. Emory. Vol. 1, pt. 2: Geological reports by C.C. Parry and Arthur Schott, notes by W. H. Emory; Paleontology and geology of the boundary by James Hall; Description of cretaceous and tertiary fossi…
GMN 10514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12707
1859 FORBES, Edward (1815 – 1854); GODWIN-AUSTEN, Robert Alfred Gloyn (1808 – 1884)
The natural history of the European seas. Edited and continued by Robert Godwin-Austen.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9972 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12161
1860 HOLBROOK, John Edwards (1794 – 1871)
Ichthyology of South Carolina. Vol. 1 (All Published).
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 10337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12529
1861 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology by John Hunter, F.R.S. Being his posthumous papers on those subjects, arranged and revised, with notes; to which are added the introductory lectures on the Hunterian collection of fossil remains delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, March 8th, 10th and 12th, 1855 by Richard Owen .... 2 vols.
Digital facsimiles from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9780
1862 PHILES, Manuel (1275 – 1345)
Poetae bucolici et didactici: Theocritus, Bion, Moschus....Phile De animalibus, elephanti, plantis....
Manuel Philes of Ephesus wrote didactic poems on the characteristics of animals, chiefly based upon Aelian and Oppian, and a didactic poem of some 2000 lines, dedicated to Michael IX Palaiologos; on the elephant, and …
GMN 7792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9964
1867 ALBERTUS MAGNUS, [Albert von Bollstädt] (1195 – 1280); MEYER, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich (1791 – 1858); JESSEN, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1821 – 1889)
Alberti Magni ex ordine praedicatorum de vegetabilibus libri VII: Historiae naturalis pars XVIII. Editionem criticam ab Ernesto Meyero coeptam: Absolvit Carolus Jessen.
One of the best works on natural history produced during the Middle Ages, and, like most of Albertus's works, influential throughout the medieval period, though it does not appear to have been published in print until…
GMN 1792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1880
1872 GRAY, John Edward (1800 – 1875); SOWERBY, James De Carle (1787 – 1871); BELL, Thomas (1792 – 1880); LEAR, Edward (1812 – 1888)
Tortoises, terrapins, and turtles drawn from life
Though not credited on the title page, Thomas Bell was superintendent of the plates and the intended author of this work. James de Carle Sowerby created the original paintings. Edward Lear drew the plates on stone. Fo…
GMN 13353 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15624
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
1885 WATKINS, Morgan George (1835 – 1911)
Gleanings from the natural history of the ancients.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12122 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14331
1886 RIDGWAY, Robert (1850 – 1929)
A nomenclature of colors for naturalists, and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists.
Ridgway proposed a simple classification system, doing away with many subjective and evocative names that were currently popular. The work illustrated 186 colors. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Libra…
GMN 9566 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11752
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
1893 MUSÉUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE
Centenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11726
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
1899 –1904 HAECKEL, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August (1834 – 1919)
Kunstformern der Natur.
Includes 100 mostly color lithographic and half-tone prints based on Haeckel's sketches and watercolors. Issued in 10 fascicules of 10 prints each and collected into a bound volume in 1904. Digital facsimile of vol. 1…
GMN 7998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10174
1901 GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Étienne (1772 – 1844); HAMY, Ernest Théodore Jules (1842 – 1908)
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Lettres écrites d'Égypte à Cuvier, Jussieu, Lacépède, Monge, Desgenettes, Redouté le Jeune, Norry, etc., aux professeurs du muséum et à sa famille. Receuillies et publiées avec un préface et des notes par le Dr. E.-T. Hamy.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 12210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14420
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
1908 OPPIAN OF APAMEA, [Oppian of Pella; Pseudo Oppian] (180 – ); BOUDREAUX, Pierre (1882 – 1914)
Oppien d'Apamée, La chasse. Édition critique par Pierre Boudreaux.
Standard edition of the Cynegetica (Κυνηγετικά/KynÄ“getiká, 'On Hunting' ) by Oppian of Apamea. This edition was based upon a new collation of prior printed editions and extant manuscripts of the text. Boudreaux pref…
GMN 7110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9277
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
1931 PFEIFFER, Max Adolf (1875 – 1957); MERIAN, Maria Sibylla (1647 – 1717)
Die Werke der Maria Sibylle Merian: bibliographisch Zusammengestellt.
GMN 11777 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13978
1933 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); SOULSBY, Basil H. (1864 – 1933)
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.
GMN 11233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13430
1934 DAWSON, Warren Royal (1888 – 1968); SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith
GMN 13637 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15918
1936 SBORDÓNE, Francecsco (1911 – 1983)
Physiologus. Ed. F. Sbordóne.
Physiologus, a didactic Christian text, is thought to have been written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author in Alexandria, 200-275 CE. It describes a "hodgepodge" of animals, real and imaginery, with the fig tre…
GMN 8978 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11157
1938 ANKER, Jean (1892 – 1957)
Bird books and bird art: An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology, based principally on the collection of books containing plates with figures of birds and their eggs now in the University Library at Copenhagen and including a catalogue of these works.
This bibliography is distinctive for its very detailed annotations.
GMN 11771 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13972
1940 –1993 SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
Bibliography of fossil vertebrates: The indexed published literature of vertebrate paleontology, 1509-1993.
http://vertpaleo.org/Publications/Bibliography-of-Fossil-Vertebrates.aspx "The Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates (BFV) aimed to index the world literature of vertebrate paleontology. Although no compilation can ever …
GMN 10743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12939
1943 RÉAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683 – 1757); TREMBLEY, Abraham (1710 – 1784); GUYÉNOT, Émile (1885 – 1964)
Correspondence inédite entre Réaumur et Abraham Trembley, comprenant 113 lettres, recueillies et annotées par Maurice Trembley. Introduction par Emile Guyenot.
GMN 12123 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14332
1947 RAVEN, Charles Earle (1885 – 1964)
English naturalists from Neckham to Ray.
GMN 356.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/294
1949 SMITH, Alexander Hanchett (1904 – 1986)
Mushrooms in their natural habitats.
A distinctively published work illustrated stereoscopically with color View-Master slides, and incorporating the View-Master "reels" and a View-Master viewer in a box along with the conventional bound text.
GMN 11102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13298
1958 DAWSON, Warren Royal (1888 – 1968); BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
The Banks letters: A calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum, the British Museum (Natural History) and other collections in Great Britain.
GMN 10683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12876
1960 HOOKE, Robert (1635 – 1703); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
A bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke by Geoffrey Keynes, Kt.
GMN 11202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13399
1966 AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851)
The original water-color paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America. Reproduced in color from the collection at The New York Historical Society. Introduction by Marshall B. Davidson. 2 vols.
First printed edition of the "virtually complete" series of original water-color paintings for Audubon's The Birds of America, preserved in The New York Historical Society.
GMN 12801 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15047
1972 ULLMANN, Manfred (1931 – )
Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam.(Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Ergänzungsband VI, 2).
Concerns zoology, botany, mineralogy, alchemy, astrology, magic, agriculture, the largest section being devoted to alchemy.
GMN 12526 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14761
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
1975 GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565); WELLISCH, Hans Hanan (1920 – 2004)
Conrad Gessner: A bio-bibliogaphy
GMN 11216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13413
1976 ALLEN, David Elliston (1932 – )
The naturalist in Britain: A social history.
GMN 8055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10231
