Life Sciences
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation
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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian monk in the St. Thomas monastery in Brno. His seminal paper "Experiments in Plant Hybridization" …
Bacteria in Daily Life
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Grace Coleridge Frankland
The author provides a fascinating look at the emerging science of bacteriology at the start of the twentieth century including early progres…
The Elements of Botany
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Asa Gray
The book is intended to ground beginners in Structural Botany and the principles of vegetable life, mainly as concerns Flowering or Phanerog…
The Mason-Bees
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Jean-Henri Fabre
This is more than a book about bees and their lives; the author talks about his cats, red ants, and insect psychology in general. Jean Hen…
Evolution Creatrice
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Henri Bergson
Creative Evolution (French: L'Évolution créatrice) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation…
The Elements of Anatomy and Physiology
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William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Anatomy and Physiology is one in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. Th…
Discourses: Biological and Geological
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist (comparative anatomist). He was the most effective supporter of Darwin's Theory of Evoluti…
Constructive Beekeeping
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Ed Clark
The author explores the effects of condensation and evaporation as they relate to the success of a beehive. The results of various experimen…
The Natural History Volume 4
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Pliny the Elder
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …
Aristotle's Masterpiece
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Pseudo-Aristotle
Aristotle's Masterpiece, also known as The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher, is a sex manual and a midwifery book that was popular…
Het Ontstaan der Soorten
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Charles Darwin
Het ontstaan der soorten (Engels: The Origin of Species) is het bekendste boek van de Britse bioloog Charles Darwin. In het boek zet Darwin …
Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany
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Agnes Arber
Eminent British botanist Agnes Arber provides an authoritative history of printed Herbals -- books widely used in early modern Europe to cat…
On the Parts of Animals
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Aristotle
On the Parts of Animals (Greek: ΠΕΡΙ ΖΩΩΝ ΜΟΡΙΩΝ; Latin: De Partibus Animalium) by Aristotle (ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣ). The first book asks whether anim…
The Bubonic Plague
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Rai Bahadur A. Mitra
Dr. Rai Bahadur A. Mitra who was the Chief Medical Officer in Kashmir presents a short treatise on the bubonic plague. The book ranges from …
Radioisotopes in Medicine
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Earl W. Phelan
Radioisotopes in Medicine is an educational booklet published in 1966 as part of the Understanding the Atom series by the United States Atom…
Dinosaurs, With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
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William Diller Matthew
America has had a fascination with dinosaurs, particularly since the wild enthusiasm of Jurassic Park and its sequels. The term "dinosa…
The Extermination of the American Bison
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William T. Hornaday
The American bison (Bison bison), also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the gra…
Travels to Oaxaca
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Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry De Menonville and Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville
Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye cochineal insects from Spanish Mexico and transplant them and their cacti hosts …
Sleeping Sickness
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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
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William Paley
In this early nineteenth-century classic, William Paley assesses how our understanding of nature reflects characteristics of its creator. Fi…