2016 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); NYNÄS, Carina; BERGQUIST, Lars (1930 – )
A Linnean kaleidoscope: Linnaeus and his 186 dissertations. 2 vols.
The first comprehensive introduction to all 186 Linnaean dissertations, in the form of short essays (many illustrated) on each dissertation. Most of these dissertations, which were published in Latin, have remained re…
GMN 7526 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9698
2016 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882); FRITH, Clifford Brodie (1949 – )
Charles Darwin’s life with birds: His complete ornithology.
GMN 10423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12616
2017 COAN, Eugene Victor; KABAT, Alan R.
2,400 years of malacology.
" ... a comprehensive catalog of biographical and bibliographical publications for over 10,000 malacologists, conchologists, paleontologists, and others with an interest in mollusks, from Aristotle to the present. For…
GMN 9474 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11658
2018 LEWIS, Daniel
Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.
GMN 10425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12618
2019 PORTER, James W.
The professional library of James W. Porter on corals and coral reefs.
GMN 11804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14006
2019 ABBOT, John (1751 – 1840); SWAINSON, William John (1789 – 1855)
John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, science, and commerce in nineteenth-century natural history illustration
"During his lifetime (1751-ca. 1840), English-born naturalist and artist John Abbot rendered more than 4,000 natural history illustrations and profoundly influenced North American entomology, as he documented many spe…
GMN 13095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15347
2020 CUVIER, Jean Léopold Chrétien Frédéric "Georges" (1769 – 1832); PLETSCH, Theodore Wells III (1945 – )
Georges Cuvier’s historical portrait of the progress of ichthyology, from Its origins to our own time. Second edition, revised and enlarged, edited and annotated by T. W. Pietsch, translated from the French by A. J. Simpson.
GMN 12466 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14699
2023 NIEH, James C.; DONG, Shihao; LIN, Tao; TAN, Ken
Social signal learning of the waggle dance in honey bees.
The authors showed that the complex waggle dance, previously thought to be an inborn trait, is partly learned by young bees as they observe more experienced bees. Abstract: "Honey bees use a complex form of spatial re…
GMN 14139 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16453
