1919 MOLONEY, Michael Francis (1891 – 1961)
Irish ethno-botany and the evolution of medicine in Ireland.
A discussion of Irish materia medica and a summary of the development of medicine in Ireland from the earliest times. Indices in Gaelic and English. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11049
1919 GILMORE, Melvin Randolph (1868 – 1940)
Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.
Medicinal and edible plants used by the Dakota, Omaha/Ponca, Winnebago and Pawnee peoples. Gilmore reports on 180 plants, and offers 16 pages of tables of names in various languages. Digital facsimile from the Biodive…
GMN 9287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11469
1922 ROHDE, Eleanour Sophy Sinclair (1881 – 1950)
The old English herbals.
Reprinted London, Minerva Press, 1972.
GMN 2048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2258
1922 GOODYER, John (1592 – 1664); GUNTHER, Robert William Theodore (1869 – 1940); TRADESCANT, John The Elder (1575 – 1638)
Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others
Most of this book concerns John Goodyer, his life, his garden, a detailed 40-page catalogue of Goodyer's library, Goodyer's list of plants, lists of plants grown in English gardens, etc. Digital facsimile from Google …
GMN 12001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14209
1923 SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians.
Digital facsimile from spiritoftherivers.wikispaces.com at this link.
GMN 9294 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11476
1923 HEVESY, George Charles de (1885 – 1966)
The absorption and translocation of lead by plants: A contribution to the application of the method of radioactive indicators in the investigation of the change of substance in plants.
The first application of radioactive tracers in biological studies. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. Hevesy received the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers …
GMN 9333 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11515
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
1924 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); KRIEGER, Louis Charles Christopher (1873 – 1940)
Catalogue of the mycological library of Howard A. Kelly. Compiled by Louis C. C. Krieger.
The catalogue was prepared for Kelly by Louis Krieger, an eminent mycologist and botanical illustrator. Entries for this library were not numbered; however in his introduction Kelly stated that the library "herewith c…
GMN 11226 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13423
1925 KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
Catalogue of early herbals.
GMN 2050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2262
1928 DENSMORE, Frances Theresa (1867 – 1957)
Use of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9271 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11453
1928 SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians.
GMN 9289 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11471
1928 MACHT, David Israel (1882 – 1961)
The holy incense: A botanical, pharmacological, psychological and archaeological appreciation of the Bible.
GMN 9943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12131
1928 BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857 – 1934)
The divine origin of the craft of the herbalist.
A semi-popular account useful for its surveys of the earliest herbal literature: Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Greece, Syriac, Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopian (Abyssinian). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at thi…
GMN 12678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14923
1929 FISCHER, Hermann (1884 – 1936)
Mittelalterliche Pflanzenkunde.
Reprint, with a forward by Johannes Steudel. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2001.
GMN 11936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14141
1931 GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)
A modern herbal. The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs & trees with their modern scientific uses. With an introduction by the editor, Mrs. C. F. Leyel. 2 vols.
Online version at Botanical.com at this link.
GMN 7062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9229
1931 BOSENBERG, Henry F. (1883 – 1962)
U. S. Plant patent 1. Climbing or trailing rose. Filed Aug. 6, 1930. Issued Aug. 18, 1931.
This was the first patent granted for a life form. In response to complaints from the nursery industry that the future of the plant breeding industry was jeopardized by the “pirating” of new plant varieties, President…
GMN 14209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16525
1932 STONE, Eric Percy (1892 – )
Medicine among the American Indians.
Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1962.
GMN 6460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7621
1932 MOONEY, James (1861 – 1921); OLBRECHTS, Frans Maria (1899 – 1958)
The Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7003 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9169
1932 SWANK, George R.
The ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. M.A. thesis.
GMN 9283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11465
1932 SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians.
Digital facsimile from nwic.edu at this link.
GMN 9295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11477
1933 SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians.
Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.
GMN 9348 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11530
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
1937 HOOPER, David (1858 – 1947); FIELD, Henry (1902 – 1986)
Useful plants and drugs of Iran and Iraq. By David Hooper with notes by Henry Field.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11424
1938 ARBER, Agnes Robertson (1879 – 1960)
Herbals: their origin and evolution. A chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. 2nd edition.
Includes an invaluable bibliography. Reprinted, with new introduction and additional references, 1987.
GMN 2059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2316
1938 DUNTHORNE, Gordon
Flower and fruit prints of the 18th and Early 19th centuries: Their history, makers and uses, with a catalogue raisonné of the works in which they are found.
GMN 11775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13976
1939 WHITING, Alfred Frank (1912 – 1978)
Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.
GMN 9323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11505
1940 CRUZ, Martin De La; EMMART, Emily Walcott (1898 – ); BADIANO, Juan (1484 – 1552)
The Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.
The earliest complete Mexican medical text and the only medical text known to be the work of native Aztecs. Written by an Aztec physician named by the Spanish Martin de la Cruz, and translated into Latin by another na…
GMN 1811.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2009
1940 TAYLOR, Lyda Averill
Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.
Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.
GMN 9278 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11460
1941 WYMAN, Leland Clifton (1897 – 1988); HARRIS, Stuart K.
Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.
Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.
GMN 9281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11463
1942 TANTAQUIDGEON, Gladys Lola (1899 – 2005)
A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.
In this publication Delaware refers to the name of the Native American people known as Lenape, or Leni Lenape, or Delaware people, rather than the U.S. state. In terms of geographical scope, the book covers traditiona…
GMN 9284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11466
1944 ELMORE, Francis Hapgood
Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.
Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu at this link.
GMN 9282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11464
1947 CURTIN, Leonora Scott Muse (1879 – 1972); MOORE, Michael Roland Shaw (1941 – 2009)
Healing herbs of the upper Rio Grande.
Revised and edited by Michael Moore as Healing herbs of the upper Rio Grande: Traditional medicine of the Southwest (Sante Fe: Western Edge Press, 1997).
GMN 9343 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11525
1949 THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)
A dictionary of Assyrian botany.
GMN 8514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10691
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
1950 STEBBINS, George Ledyard Jr. (1906 – 2000)
Variation and evolution in plants.
The first comprehensive exposition of the relationship between genetics and natural selection in plants, and the most imporant book on plant evolution published during the 20th century. Stebbins combined genetics and …
GMN 9185 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11365
1951 –1952 NISSEN, Claus (1901 – 1975)
Die botanische Buchillustration: Ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie. 2 vols.
GMN 7113 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9280
1952 MOLDENKE, Harold Norman (1909 – 1996); MOLDENKE, Alma Lance Ericson (1908 – 1997)
Plants of the Bible.
The most comprehensive treatise available on plants and plant products mentioned in the Bible.
GMN 2068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2362
1953 LEWIN, Bernhard; IBN DAWŪD DĪNAWARĪ, Ābu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad (815 – 896)
The book of plants [Kitâb al-nabât] of Abū Hanīfa ad-Dīnawari: Part of the alphabetical section (j-i). Edited and translated by Bernhard Lewin.
GMN 9243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11425
1955 THOMSON, Margaret H.
Textes Grecs inédits relatifs aux plantes.
Previously unpublished ancient Greek textes on botany, with French translations.
GMN 8873 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11051
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
1956 ANDRÉ, Jacques
Lexique des termes de botanique en latin.
GMN 8957 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11136
1957 TRAIN, Percy; ARCHER, William Andrew (1894 – 1973); HEINRICHS, James R.
Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. (First published in 1941.)
GMN 9272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11454
1958 –1961 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); QUINBY, Jane (1901 – 1965); STEVENSON, Allan Henry (1903 – 1970); HUNT, Rachel McMasters Miller (1884 – 1963)
Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.
Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…
GMN 8744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10922
1958 WASSON, Robert Gordon (1898 – 1986); HEIM, Roger (1900 – 1979)
Les champignons hallucinogenes du Mexique. Études ethnologiques, taxinomiques, biologiques, physiologiques et chimiques.
GMN 12215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14426
1961 ASHLEY-TOWLE, Margaret Elizabeth (1902 – 1985)
The ethnobotany of pre-Columbian Peru.
"....based on analysis of 2200 wild and cultivated plant specimens with clearly defined archaeological contexts... Part I is a systematic ethnobotany with pertinent citations of the botanical and archaeological litera…
GMN 10854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13050
1961 BARTLETT, Harley Harris (1886 – 1960); SHOHARA, Hide
Japanese botany during the period of wood-block printing.
I. An essay on the development of natural history, especially botany, in Japan; on the influence of early Chinese & Western contacts; on Japanese books & wood-block illustration. II. An exhibition of Japanese books & …
GMN 10949 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13145
1962 WATT, John Mitchell (1892 – 1980); BREYER-BRANDWIJK, Maria Gerdina (1918 – 1945)
The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa: Being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal. Second edition.
1457pp. The first edition of 1932 had only 314pp.
GMN 8793 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10971
1962 PERRING, Franklyn (1927 – 2003); WALTERS, Stuart Max (1920 – 2005)
Atlas of the British flora.
A pioneering large-scale project in plant distribution cartography, containing 10-km square distribution maps for all non-critical native and frequently occurring alien vascular plant species found in Britain and Irel…
GMN 10506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12699
1963 COLDEN, Jane (1724 – 1766); RICKETT, Harold William (1896 – 1989); HALL, Elizabeth Cornelia (1898 – 1989)
Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.
Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …
GMN 7868 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10040
1966 HEILMANN, Karl Eugen
Kräuterbücher in Bild und Geschichte.
GMN 2068.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2407
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