1914 FAIRCHILD, David Grandison (1869 – 1954); FAIRCHILD, Marion Bell
Book of monsters.
The first book of macro photographs (extreme close-up photography) of insects.
GMN 13877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16167
1915 PUNNETT, Reginald Crundall (1875 – 1967)
Mimicry in butterflies.
GMN 13114 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15367
1916 RUSSELL, Edward Stuart (1887 – 1954)
Form and function: a contribution to the history of animal morphology.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 353.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/284
1916 –1923 DEAN, Bashford (1867 – 1928); EASTMAN, Charles Rochester (1868 – 1918); GUDGER, Eugene Willis (1866 – 1956); HENN, Arthur Wilbur (1890 – 1959)
A Bibliography of fishes by Bashford Dean, enlarged and edited by Charles Rochester Eastman. 3 vols. Vol. 3 extended and edited by Eugene Willis Gudger with the cooperation of Arthur Wilbur Henn.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9258
1917 KÖRNER, Otto (1858 – 1935)
Das homerische Tiersystem und seine Bedeutung für die zoologische Systematik des Aristoteles.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12177
1918 –1922 BEEBE, Charles William (1877 – 1962); GRØNVOLD, Henrik (1858 – 1940); KNIGHT, Charles Robert (1874 – 1953); LODGE, George Edward (1860 – 1954); THORBURN, Archibald (1860 – 1935)
A monograph of the pheasants. 4 vols.
Beebe's spectacular work, with 90 colored plates of birds and 88 photogravure plates of habitats and scenery, has been called the greatest ornithological treatise of the 20th century. Illustrators included Henrik Grön…
GMN 12228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14440
1919 DOBELL, Clifford (1886 – 1949)
The amoebae living in man; a zoological monograph.
"I have attempted in this monograph to give an accurate and concise account of all the amoebae which live in human beings." Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 11486 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13685
1919 –1968 BENT, Arthur Cleveland (1866 – 1954)
Life histories of North American Birds. 23 vols.
One of the most comprehensive repositories of North American ornithology, published over 50 years, in a series of volumes in the United States National Museum Bulletin. Bent used his own experiences traveling over the…
GMN 12828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15074
1920 MACEWEN, Sir William (1848 – 1924)
The growth and shedding of the antlers of the deer. The histological phenomena and their relation to the growth of bone.
The first study of the unusual and dramatic physiology of the annual growth and shedding of the antlers of deer. "The amount of bony matter annually secreted to form antlers of the larger deer is enormous, antlers of …
GMN 7000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9166
1923 –2005 KÜKENTHAL, Willy Georg (1861 – 1922)
Handbuch der Zoologie / Handbook of Zoology. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreichs / A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Gegründet von / Founded by Willy Kükenthal. 8 vols., each expanded into many parts.
The Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology was founded by Willi Kükenthal in Berlin, and treated the complete animal kingdom from single cell organisms to mammals in eight thematic volumes: Volume I: Protozoa, Pori…
GMN 9321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11503
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 WOLBACH, Simeon Burt (1880 – 1954); HERTIG, Marshall (1893 – 1978)
Studies on Rickettsia-like micro-organisms in insects.
Hertig and Wolbach first described the parasitic microbe Wolbachia in the common house mosquito in 1924. In 1936 Hertig formally described the species as Wolbachia pipientis. Since then the genus Wolbachia has become …
GMN 10943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13139
1926 WENYON, Charles Morley (1878 – 1948)
Protozoology. 2 vols.
Wenyon was one of the world’s foremost authorities on medical protozoology.
GMN 2462 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3012
1926 RÉAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683 – 1757); WHEELER, William Morton (1865 – 1937)
The natural history of ants: From an unpublished manuscript in the Academy of Sciences of Paris. Translated and annotated by William Morton Wheeler.
French and English text. The French text was first published in France as the 7th volume of Reaumur's Mémoires, Paris, 1928.
GMN 9656 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11843
1928 TILNEY, Frederick (1875 – 1938); RILEY, Henry Alsop (1887 – 1966)
The brain from ape to man: A contribution to the study of the evolution and development of the human brain by Frederick Tilney. With chapters on the reconstruction of the gray matter in the primate brain stem by Henry Alsop Riley. 2 vols.
Classic study of the evolution of the central nervous system in the higher mammals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 350 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/269
1928 DOBELL, Clifford (1886 – 1949)
Researches on the intestinal protozoa of monkeys and man.
Classic account of the life-cycle of Entamoeba histolytica.
GMN 5194.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7093
1928 –1975 HORN, Walther Hermann Richard (1871 – 1939); SCHENKLING, Sigmund (1865 – 1946); DERKSEN, W.; GÖLLNER-SCHEIDING, U.
Index litteraturae entomologicae serie I: Die Welt-Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inklusive. Index litteraturae entomologicae series II: von 1864 bis 1900. 9 vols.
The first part, by Horn and Schenkling, was privately published by Horn in 4 vols., 1928-29. The second part, by Derksen and Göllner-Scheiding, was published by the Akademie der Lanwirtschafwissenschaften der DDR in 5…
GMN 11773 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13974
1929 –1931 PATTON, Walter Scott (1876 – 1960); EVANS, Alwen Myfanwy (1895 – 1937)
Ticks, mites and venomous animals of medical and veterinary importance. Part 1: Medical. Part 2: Public health.
Part 1 by Patton and the female entomologist Alwen Evans; part 2 by Patton alone.
GMN 12146 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14356
1929 COOLIDGE, Harold Jefferson Jr. (1904 – 1984)
A revision of the genus Gorilla.
Basis of the modern taxonomy of the genus Gorilla. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 12460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14692
1931 WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)
An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology. Based chiefly on the titles in the Blacker Library of Zoology, the Emma Shearer Wood Library of Ornithology, the Bibliotheca Osleriana and other libraries of McGill University, Montreal.
A comprehensive summary and bibliography of the literature on vertebrate zoology. The first 170 pages are a narrative divided into 19 chapters, plus an index. The remainder is a "partially annotated catalogue" arrange…
GMN 354 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/286
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
1932 ZUCKERMAN, Solly, Baron Zuckerman (1904 – 1993)
The social life of monkeys and apes.
A study of the relationship of Man to the other primates, from the physiological and biochemical standpoint. Zuckerman’s work is considered the first adequate interpretation of simian society. 2nd ed., 1980.
GMN 351 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/274
1936 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
Snakes of Maryland.
GMN 13588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15866
1937 –1946 OSBORN, Herbert (1856 – 1954)
Fragments of entomological history including some personal recollections of men and events. 2 vols.
GMN 9358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11540
1938 WALKER, Arthur Earl (1907 – 1995)
The primate thalamus.
GMN 1451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2321
1938 SHANNON, Raymond Corbett (1894 – 1945); ET AL
Yellow fever virus in jungle mosquitoes.
Haemagogus sp. shown to be vectors of yellow fever. With L. Whitman and M. Frania.
GMN 5467.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7600
1938 MCDERMOTT, John Coffman (1907 – )
The ape in antiquity.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9270
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 COTT, Hugh Bamford (1900 – 1987)
Adaptive coloration in animals. With an introduction by Julian S. Huxley.
Published during WWII, Cott's book was the first major work on camouflage in zoology, appreciated by zoologists for its scientific information and carried by many allied soldiers during the war for survival purposes. …
GMN 7719 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9891
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
1942 HUME, Edgar Erskine (1889 – 1952)
Ornithologists of the United States Army Medical Corps, thirty-six biographies.
GMN 9217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11399
1943 WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942); FREDERICK II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194 – 1250); FYFE, F. Marjorie
The art of falconry, being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.
English translation of the six-book version of Frederick's work, edited, with numerous appendices, illustrations, and an annotated bibliography of ancient, medieval and modern falconry, by Casey A. Wood and F. Marjori…
GMN 9352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11534
1946 FRISCH, Karl Ritter von (1886 – 1982)
Die Tänze der Bienen.
Von Frisch discovered the waggle dance, a particular figure-eight dance of honey bees by which successful foragers can communicate information with other members of their colony about the direction and distance to pat…
GMN 14138 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16452
1947 RAVEN, Charles Earle (1885 – 1964)
English naturalists from Neckham to Ray.
GMN 356.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/294
1948 –1949 RONSIL, René (1908 – 1956)
Bibliographie ornithologique française: [Vol.1:] Travaux publies en langue française et en latin en France et dans les Colonies Françaises de 1473 a 1944. [Vol. 2:] Abréviations des titres des publications périodiques cités dans la Bibliographie Ornithologique Française et Index méthodiques et systématiques. 2 vols.
GMN 11770 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13971
1949 CLARK, Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros (1895 – 1971)
History of the primates.
GMN 352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/277
1951 STRESEMANN, Erwin (1889 – 1972)
Die Entwicklung Der Ornithologie von Aristoteles bis zur Gegenwart.
Revised English translation by H. and C. Epstein, ed. by G. Cottrell, as Ornithology from Aristotle to the present, with a foreword and an epilogue on American ornithology by Ernst Mayr. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ…
GMN 356.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/297
1951 NISSEN, Claus (1901 – 1975)
Schöne Fischbücher: kurze Geschichte der ichthyologischen Illustrationen; Bibliographie fischkundlicher Abbildungswerke.
GMN 7114 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9281
1952 OSBORN, Herbert (1856 – 1954)
A brief history of entomology including time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to modern times with over five hundred portraits.
GMN 9357 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11539
1953 REEVES, William C. (1916 – 2004)
Quantitative field studies on a carbon dioxide chemotropism of mosquitoes.
Reeves demonstrated that mosquitoes detect their prey by sensing the carbon dioxide that animals exhale. (It was later shown that some mosquitoes can detect their prey from more than 165 feet away.) (Thanks to Juan We…
GMN 11075 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13271
1959 BUTENANDT, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903 – 1995); KARLSON, Peter
Pheromones (ectohormones) in insects.
Karlson and Butenandt (Nobel Prize 1939) defined pheromones as “substances which are secreted to the outside by an individual of the same species, in which they release a specific reaction, for example, a definite beh…
GMN 14056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16366
1960 CHRISTOPHERS, Samuel Rickard (1873 – 1978)
Aëdes Aegypti (L.) The yellow fever mosquito: Its life history, bionomics and structure.
GMN 9390 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11573
1960 LISNEY, Arthur A.
A bibliography of British Lepidoptera, 1608-1799.
Bibliography of British works on butterflies and moths from the early seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries. Includes biographical information on the authors covered. Plates are mainly portraits of the authors.
GMN 10569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12762
1962 PETIT, Georges (1892 – 1973); THÉODORIDÉS, Jean (1926 – 1899)
Histoire de la zoologie des origines à Linné.
GMN 357 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/299
1963 ZEUNER, Frederick Everard (1905 – 1963)
A history of domesticated animals.
GMN 7375 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9547
1965 –1970 HALSTEAD, Bruce W. (1920 – 2002); COURVILLE, Donovan Amos (1901 – 1996)
Poisonous and venomous marine animals of the world
Volume 1: Invertebrates; Vols. 2 & 3: Vertebrates. An unusually elaborate and finely printed, illustrated and bound set funded by the Department of Defense. Over 2000 pages. The first 155pp of Vol. 1 are a "History of…
GMN 9663 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11850
1966 –1978 NISSEN, Claus (1901 – 1975)
Die zoologische Buchillustration. Ihre Bibliographie und Geschichte. 2 vols.
The most comprehensive history and historical bibliography of zoological illustration.
GMN 358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/305
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
1969 –1975 COLE, Francis Joseph (1872 – 1959); EALES, Nellie Barbara (1889 – 1989)
The Cole Library of early medicine and zoology. Catalogue of books and pamphlets. 2 parts.
The library of F.J. Cole (see No. 356). Part 1: 1472-1800 to the present day and Supplement to Part 1.
GMN 6786.15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8371
1971 YOUNG, John Zachary (1907 – 1997)
The anatomy of the nervous system of Octopus vulgaris.
GMN 7159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9326
