1874 BELT, Thomas (1832 – 1878)
The naturalist in Nicaragua: A narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales; journeys in the savannahs and forests, with observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms.
In this book Belt first described "the mutualistic relationship of certain Acacias and the ant we now know as Pseudomyrmex spinicola. These are a species of red myrmecophyte-inhabiting neotropical ants which are found…
GMN 7443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9615
1874 SCAMMON, Charles Melville (1825 – 1911)
The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America described and illustrated together with an account of the American whale-fishery.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 10260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12451
1874 COUES, Elliott Ladd (1842 – 1899)
Field ornithology. Comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds and a check list of North American birds.
This work incorporated Coues' A check list of North American birds (1873). Coues had the check list portion of this work printed with the versos blank so that users could enter in their own information. Digital facsim…
GMN 11789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13991
1876 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
The geographical distribution of animals. 2 vols.
"In 1872, at the urging of many of his friends, including Darwin, Philip Sclater, and Alfred Newton, Wallace began research for a general review of the geographic distribution of animals. He was unable to make much pr…
GMN 145.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2488
1877 THOMSON, Charles Wyville (1830 – 1882)
The voyage of the "Challenger": The Atlantic: A preliminary account of the general results of th exploring voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" during the year 1873 and the early part of the year 1876. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of the first American edition (1878) from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 7484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9656
1877 DAVID, Jean Pierre Armand (1826 – 1900); OUSTALET, Jean Frédéric Émile (1844 – 1905)
Les oiseaux de la Chine. Avec un atlas de 124 planches, dessinées et lithographiées par M. Arnoul et coloriées au pinceau. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12948 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15195
1878 EWART, Joseph (1831 – 1906)
The poisonous snakes of India: For the use of the officials and others residing in the Indian Empire.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11682
1878 SLYM, Martinus Johannes
Elephants and their treatment in health and disease.
Expanded from a "small" edition issued in 1873 at the request of the Conservator of Forests, British Burma to "answer the purpose of a guide for the management of those animals, in a more direct and complete form; and…
GMN 10721 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12915
1878 –1880 COUES, Elliott Ladd (1842 – 1899)
American ornithological bibliography. 4 parts. (Also called "Ornithological bibliography").
This is an exhaustive work up to time of publications, including scientific references to American birds in publications, the titles of which do not indicate any ornithological material. [Pt. 1.] Geological and Geogra…
GMN 11788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13990
1879 –1891 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); FLOWER, William Henry (1831 – 1899); SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909)
Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 3 vols.: Part 1. Man: Homo sapiens.... Part II: Class Mammalia, other than man... Part III: Class Aves.
Parts 1 and 2 by Flower; part 3 by Sharpe. Digital facsimile of Part 1 from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link, of Part 2 at this link, and Part 3 at this link.
GMN 7591 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9763
1880 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
Island life: Or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates.
"In 1880, Wallace published the book Island Life as a sequel to The Geographical Distribution of Animals. It surveyed the distribution of both animal and plant species on islands. Wallace classified islands into three…
GMN 7440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9612
1881 GOULD, John (1804 – 1881)
Catalogue of the ornithological library of the late John Gould.
GMN 13425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15697
1883 ROMANES, George John (1848 – 1894); DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
Mental evolution in animals. With a posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin.
Includes the first editon of Darwin's most significant contribution to psychology. This was part of Chapter 10 of Darwin's unpublished "big book" on the origin of species. Romanes attempted, with Darwin, to develop a …
GMN 7945 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10120
1884 MURRAY, James A.
The vertebrate zoology of Sind. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of mammals, birds, and reptiles inhabiting the province; observations on their habits, &c; tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Belochistan, and Afghanistan; Punjab, North-west provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations.
GMN 13051 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15302
1886 –1890 BLANCHARD, Raphaël Anatole Émile (1857 – 1919)
Traité de zoologie médicale. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2983
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
1886 SAVTSCHENKO, Peter Nikolaevich (SAVCHENKO) (1846 – 1885)
Atlas des poissons vénéneux et descriptions des ravages produits par eux sur l'organisme humain, et des contre-poisons à employer. Atlas iadovitykh ryb s opisaniem vida ikh, deistviia iada na organizm cheloveka i ukazaniem protivuiadii.
The first well-illustrated medical military manual on toxic marine organisms. Text in French and Russian.
GMN 9665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11852
1886 MURRAY, James A.
The reptiles of Sind: A systematic account, with descriptions of all the species inhabiting the province, and a table of their geographical distribution in Persia, Bloochistan, Afghanistan, Punjab, Northwest Provinces, and the Peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and colored illustrations.
A re-issue with additions to date, of "Reptilian fauna" in the author's Vertebrate zoology of Sind. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 13052 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15303
1887 BALFOUR, Edward Green (1813 – 1889)
The agricultural pests of India, and of eastern and southern Asia, vegetable and animal, injurious to man and his products.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11756 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13956
1887 –1890 MURRAY, James A.
The avifauna of British India and its dependencies. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of birds inhabiting British India, observations on their habits, nidification, &c., tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Sind, Punjab, N.W. Provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15304
1888 BROCA, Pierre Paul (1824 – 1880)
Mémoires sur le cerveau de l’homme et des primates publiés avec un introduction et des notes par Le docteur S. Pozzi.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 344 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/249
1888 FÜRBRINGER, Max Carl Anton (1846 – 1920)
Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Systematik der Vögel, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Anatomie der Stütz- und Bewegungsorgane. 2 vols.
Fürbringer specialized in avian morphology and classification; he undertook the first major phylogenetic ordering of bird groups based on a large scale study of skeletal, morphological and anatomical characteristics. …
GMN 9328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11510
1889 BOTTARD, Louis Alphonse (1854 – )
Les poissons venimeux. Contribution à l'hygiène navale.
The first systematic work on the venom organs of fishes.
GMN 9666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11853
1889 BENEDEN, Pierre-Joseph van (1809 – 1894)
Histoire naturelle des cétacés des mers d'Europe. Extrait des tomes XXXVIII, XL, XLV, XLIII des Mémoires couronnés et autres Mémoires publiés par l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique - 1889.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12482
1892 –1982 HASSALL, Albert (1862 – 1942); STILES, Charles Wardell (1867 – 1941); ET AL
Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology.
An index to the world's literature on parasites and parasitisms of man, of domestic animals, and of wild animals whose parasites may be transmitted to man and domestic animals. It also contains references to fur-beari…
GMN 355 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/289
1893 LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 – 1519); SABACHNIKOFF, Theodore (Fyodor Vasilyevich Sabašnikov) (1869 – 1927); PIUMATI, Giovanni (1850 – 1915); RAVAISSON-MOLLIEN, Charles Lacher (1849 – 1919)
Leonardo da Vinci: Codice sul volo degli uccelli e varie altre materie. Pubblicato da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Transcrizione e note di Giovanni Piumati; traduzione francese di Carlo Ravaisson-Mollien.
The scientific study of the mechanics of flight begins with Leonardo’s investigations on birds, undertaken during his attempts to build a flying machine. At the time of publication Sabachnikoff owned the manuscript. A…
GMN 93 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/53
1893 SAVILLE-KENT, William (1845 – 1908)
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; Its products and potentialities, containing an account, with copious coloured and photographic illustrations (the latter here produced for the first time), of the corals and coral reefs, pearl and pearl-shell, bêche-de-mer, other fishing Industries, and the marine fauna of the Australian Great Barrier region.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage LIbrary at this link.
GMN 11810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14012
1894 MÉGNIN, Jean Pierre (1828 – 1905)
La faune des cadavres: Application de l'entomologie à la médecine légale.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 13770 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16055
1897 AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851); COUES, Elliott Ladd (1842 – 1899); AUDUBON, Maria Rebecca (1843 – 1925)
Audubon and his journals by Maria R. Audubon. With zoological and other notes by Elliott Coues. 2 vols.
A biographical study by his grand-daughter, based on previously unpublished letters and journals of John James Audubon. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15046
1899 NUTTALL, George Henry Falkiner (1862 – 1937)
On the rôle of insects, arachnids and myriapods, as carriers in the spread of bacterial and parasitic diseases of man and animals. A critical and historical study.
GMN 2554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3669
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
1900 –1909 LANKESTER, Sir Edwin Ray (1847 – 1929)
A treatise on zoology. Edited by Sir Ray Lankester. 9 vols.
Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/252
1900 DENTON, Sherman Foote (1856 – 1937)
As nature shows them. Moths and butterflies of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. With over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. 2 vols.
Includes 56 nature-printed and handcolored plates produced from impressions of the wings of the actual insects pressed onto the paper. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13204 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15465
1901 –1910 THEOBALD, Frederick Vincent (1868 – 1930)
A monograph of the Culicidae, or mosquitoes. Mainly compiled from the collections received at the British Museum from various parts of the world in connection with the cause of malaria conducted by the Colonial Office and the Royal Society. 4 vols. and atlas.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 346 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/253
1901 EVANS, Griffith (1835 – 1935)
Elephants and their diseases: A treatise on elephants.
Digital facsimile of the 1910 edition from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 10138 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12327
1903 TURNER, William (1508 – 1568); EVANS, Arthur Humble (1855 – 1943)
Turner on birds; a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544. Edited, with introduction, translation, notes, and appendix by A. H. Evans.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11279
1903 PEEL, Charles Victor Alexander (1869 – 1931)
The zoological gardens of Europe: Their history and chief features.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13133 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15390
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
1905 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
My life: A record of events and opinions. 2 vols.
GMN 7441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9613
1906 RETZIUS, Magnus Gustaf (1842 – 1919)
Cerebra simiarum illustrata. Das Affenhirn in bildlicher Darstellung.
Describes and illustrates with photographs the cerebral cortex of over 50 species of primate, including prosimians, monkeys, and apes..
GMN 7340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9511
1906 –1954 SEITZ, Adalbert (1880 – 1938); ET AL
Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. The Macrolepidoptera of the world: A systematic description of the known Macrolepidoptera. 16 vols. plus 4 supplements. Written and edited by Adalbert Seitz.
Published in French, German and English. The first 4 vols. describe the Palaearctic fauna and vols. 5–16 describe the exotic fauna (Volums 1–4, Palaearctic fauna, with 4 supplements; Vols. 5–8, American fauna; Vol. 9–…
GMN 9393 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11576
1907 YERKES, Robert Means (1876 – 1956)
The dancing mouse: A study in animal behavior.
The first work to examine the characteristics of deaf mice, which became the most important model for the study of genetic deafness. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this l…
GMN 7226 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9394
1908 –1952 ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322); SMITH, John Alexander (1863 – 1939); ROSS, Willliam David (1877 – 1971)
The works of Aristotle translated into English. Edited by J.A. Smith and W.D. Ross. 12 vols.
De motu animalium. De incessu animalium. In his Works, edited by J.A. Smith and W.D. Ross, 5, 698a-714b., Oxford, 1912. De Anima. In his Works… translated into English. Edited by J. A. Smith and W. D. Ross. 3, 402a-35…
GMN 18 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4491
1908 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
Catalogue of the Library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge, compiled by H. W. Rutherford, with an introduction by Francis Darwin.
See also the digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. This BHL special collection draws on original copies and surr…
GMN 7094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9261
1910 GREGORY, William King (1897 – 1970)
The orders of mammals. Part 1.- Typical stages in the history of the ordinal classification of mammals. Part II. - Genetic relations of the mammalian orders; with a discussion of the origin of the mammalia and of the problem of the auditory ossicles.
Gregory's PhD dissertation, of particular significance for its exhaustive analysis of prior taxonomic systems for mammalia. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 14044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16352
1912 MURRAY, John (1841 – 1914); HJORT, Johan (1869 – 1948)
The depths of the ocean. A general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian Steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9654
1912 ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835 – 1915)
A review of the primates. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 11288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13485
1912 WOOD JONES, Frederick (1879 – 1954)
Coral and atolls. A history and description of the Keeling-Cocos Islands, with an account of their fauna and flora, and a discussion of the method of development and transformation of coral structures in general.
Wood Jones was one of the first to study coral reefs as living organisms interacting with their environment. Prior to Wood Jones's book most of the work on corals was done from the systematics viewpoint using specimen…
GMN 11812 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14014
1913 PATTON, Walter Scott (1876 – 1960); CRAGG, Francis William (1882 – 1924)
A textbook of medical entomology.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 349 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/265
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
