1885 SINCLAIR, Isabella (1842 – 1900)

Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-four plates painted in water-colours and described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.

The first color-illustrated book on Hawaiian flora. "The following collection of flowers was made upon the islands of Kauai and Niihau, the most northern of the Hawaiian archipelago. It is not by any means a large col…

GMN 10575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12768

1886 HAWAII. BOARD OF HEALTH

Leprosy in Hawaii. Extracts from reports of presidents of the board of health, government physicians and others, and from official records, in regard to leprosy before and after the passage of the “Act to prevent the spread of leprosy”, approved Jan. 3, 1865. The laws and regulations in regard to leprosy in the Hawaiian Kingdom.

GMN 10521 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12714

1916 MOURITZ, Arthur Albert St. M. (1861 – 1943)

"The path of the destroyer": A history of leprosy in the Hawaiian Islands, and thirty years research into the means by which it has been spread.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 10522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12715

1970 KEELING, Charles David (1928 – 2005)

Is carbon dioxide from fossil fuel changing man's environment?

Keeling developed the first instrument that could measure carbon dioxide in atmospheric samples with consistently reliable accuracy, and in 1958 began collecting carbon dioxide samples from a base he established at Ma…

GMN 13559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15836

2005 MOHR, James C.

Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.

GMN 10515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12708

2018 LEWIS, Daniel

Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.

GMN 10425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12618