Life Sciences
Sleeping Sickness
Read by Pamela Nagami
Fleming Mant Sandwith
In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children…
Natural Theology
Read by Barry Ganong
William Paley
In this early nineteenth-century classic, William Paley assesses how our understanding of nature reflects characteristics of its creator. Fi…
The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks from 25 August 1768-12 July 1771
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Joseph Banks
In this Journal, Joseph Banks records almost daily observations of the journey of the ship the Endeavour on the first of James Cook’s voyage…
Natural Science and Religion
Read by Barry Ganong
Asa Gray
Asa Gray was a highly-regarded botanist at Harvard University and a friend and collaborator of Charles Darwin. As a Christian, Gray was conc…
Animals of the Past
Read by Jeffery
Frederic Lucas
Prior to the emergence of paleontology and comparative anatomy as scientific disciplines at the end of the 18th century, it was generally kn…
Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind
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William Hanna Thomson
One of the earlier works on brain science, relating what was then known or conjectured about the connection between the physical brain and t…
Organic Evolution
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Richard Swann Lull
Organic Evolution is a college textbook that describes the mechanism of biological evolution by natural selection. It then explores the evid…
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 6: Zoology & Botany
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Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The sixth volume is on Zoology written by Dr. WM. D. Matthew and on Botany writ…
The Genetic Effects of Radiation
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Isaac Asimov
This is a book in the "Understanding the Atom Series" from the Division of Technical Information, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. …
Half Hours With the Lower Animals
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Charles Holder
This book is devoted to the study of invertebrate animals. While most people associate the word "animal" with fish, amphibians, re…
Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850
Read by David Wales
John Woodhouse Audubon
John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862), son of the famous painter John James Audubon and an artist in his own right, joined Col. Henry Webb's Ca…
Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879
Read by Paul Fleischman
John Muir
When John Muir was a student in the University of Wisconsin he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown hi…
The Life of the Fly, With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography
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Jean-Henri Fabre
The title tells all, along with other observations on insect life from the famed accidental entomologist of 19th Century France.. - Summary …
Our Vanishing Wild Life
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William T. Hornaday
We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness and cruelty of "civilized" man toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are si…
Micrographia
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Robert Hooke
Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to t…
The Elements of Mammalogy
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William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Mammalogy is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This s…
Generation of Animals
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
Generation of Animals (or On the Generation of Animals; Greek: Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως (Peri Zoion Geneseos); Latin: De Generatione Animalium) Bo…
Infection and Immunity
Read by J. M. Smallheer
George M. Sternberg
Infection and Immunity with Special Reference to the Prevention of Infectious Diseases presents a subject that is as relevant today as it wa…
A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used…
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Richard Mead
This is a work written about the plague in France and how to prevent its spread. It is considered an important historical work for the unde…
The Book of Love
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Paolo Mantegazza
Translated from Italian, it delves into the physiology of love from a scientific standpoint, in beautiful writing.