Facets

2013 CE

#8286

Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American plants: Botanical expedition to the Caribbean (1754-1759) and the publication of the Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia.

1842 CE

#13843

Notes and observations on the Ionian Islands and Malta: With some remarks on Constantinople and Turkey, and on the system of quarantine as at present conducted. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1879 CE

#9627

Notes by a naturalist on the Challenger; being an account of observations made during the Voyage of H.M.S.Challenger round the world in the years 1872-1876. Under the Command of Capt. Sir G. S.Nares and Capt. F. T. Thomson.

Includes descriptions of the natural history of Teneriffe, St. Thomas, Bermuda; Azores, Madeira, Cape Verdes; St. Paul’s Rocks and Fernando Do Norhona; Bahia; Tristan Da Cunha, Inaccessible Island; Nightingale I…

1908 CE

#7444

Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastas; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific during the years 1849-1864. Edited and condensed by Alfred Russel Wallace..., with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1871 CE

#12475

Notes on the natural history of the Strait of Magellan and the west coast of Patagonia made during the voyage of HMS 'Nassau' in the years 1866, 67, 68, & 69.

Cunningham, a physician, was naturalist aboard the Nassau, a steamer sent to survey the Strait of Magellan and the adjacent channels. This book contains a narrative of the voyage and natural history descriptions. Cunn…

1841 CE

#10072

Notes on the United States of North America during a phrenological visit in 1838-9-40. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1778 CE

#7564

Observations made during a voyage round the world, on physical geography, natural history, and ethic philosophy. Especially on 1. The earth and its strata, 2. Water and the ocean, 3. The atmosphere, 4. The changes of the globe, 5. Organic bodies, and 6. The human species.

The natural history of Captain James Cook's second voyage in the Pacific; Forster and his son Georg were appointed naturalists to the voyage after Joseph Banks withdrew from the position. Digital facsimile from Google…

1825 CE

#7320

Observations on Italy.

Digital facsimile of the 1825 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. The second, posthumous, edition published in English in Naples by Fibreno in 1834 includes additional chapters by Bell that were not includ…

1751 CE

#7677

Observations on the inhabitants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matter worthy of notice. Made by Mr. John Bartram, in his travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada. To which is annex'd, a curious account of the cataracts at Niagara, by Mr. Peter Kalm....

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1859 CE

#7446

On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the Flora of Tasmania. Offprint from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, Vol. III (Flora Tasmaniae), part I (June, 1859).

The first important botanical work by a supporter of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Hooker, a botanist and plant geographer, had been a close friend of Darwin for many years, and was aware of…

1934 CE

#12575

Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV

In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.

1979 CE

#7190

Only one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Appendix 1 contains a listing of the many medical books in the library of Thomas Jefferson.

1830 CE

#11452

Organisation, Systematik und geographische Verhältniss der Infusionsthierchen. Zwei Vorträge, in der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin gehalten in den Jahren 1828 und 1830.

In this work Ehrenberg first published his classification of infusioria, including the naming of bacteria for the first time. The work published two papers based on his expeditions. The first, read on January 10, 1828…

1831 CE–1839 CE

#12797

Ornithological biography, or an account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America; accompanied by descriptions of the objects represented in the work entitled The Birds of America, and interspersed with delineations of American scenery and manners. 5 vols.

This was the text for Aububon's The birds of America. Audubon wrote it with the assistance of William Macgillivray, though he did not credit him on the title page. The text included Audubon's accounts of his travels a…

1865 CE

#14037

Persien. Das Land und seine Bewohner. Ethnographische Schilderungen. 2 vols.

In this wide-ranging ethnographic study Polak provided the most authoritative account of his introduction of western medicine into Iran as well as the state of medicine in Iran generally. "Polak (1865, II, pp. 192-348…

1758 CE

#13545

Petri Loefling... Iter Hispanicum, eller Resa til spanska länderna uti Europa och America förrättad infrän år 1751 til år, 1756, med Beskrifningar och ron öfver de märkvärdigaste växyer, utgifven efter dess frånfälle af Carl Linnaeus.

Edited by Carl Linnaeus after the early death of Pehr Löfling, who Linnaeus considered his most gifted disciple. This is the account of Löfling's mostly botanically oriented researches through Spain, Portuga…

2004 CE

#9861

Plants and empire: Colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world.

1557 CE

#10726

Raiss Büchlein…mit güten Mitteln der Artzney Begegnen Soll.

The first pocket reference for travelers by land or sea, dealing with topics such as infected genitalia, frostbite, fouled drinking water, shipboard stench, the best boots and shoes. The recipes in this work comprised…

1771 CE–1776 CE

#9564

Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. 3 vols.

"Between 1768 and 1774, he [Pallas] led an expedition to central Russian provinces, Povolzhye, Urals, West Siberia, Altay, and Transbaikal, collecting natural history specimens for the academy. He explored the Caspian…

1824 CE–1827 CE

#9531

Reise im Norden Europa's, vorzüglich in Island: in den Jahren 1820 bis 1821. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1890 CE

#8287

Reisebilder aus Liberia: Resultate geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnographischer untersuchungen während der jahre 1879-1882 und 1886-1887. 2 vols.

The first comprehensive monograph on the Republic of Liberia, published 50 years after its colonization by freed American slaves and their descendents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Transla…

1717 CE

#12271

Relation d'un voyage du Levant fait par ordre du Roy: Contenant l'histoire ancienne et moderne de plusieurs isles de l'Archipel, de Constantinople, des côtes de la mer Noire, de l'Arménie, de la Géorgie, des frontières de Perse et de l'Asie mineure. Avec les plans des villes & des lieux considérables; La genie, les moeurs, le commerce & la religion des différens peuples qui les habitent; et l'explication des médailles & ses monuments antiques. Enrichie de descriptions & de figures d'un grand nombre de plantes rares, divers animaux; et de plusieurs observations touchant l'histoire naturelle.

Digital facsimile of the 1717 edition from BnF Gallica at this link. Translated into English, London, 1718 as: A Voyage into the Levant: Perform'd by Command of the Late French King. Containing The Antient and Modern …

1676 CE

#13870

Relations historiques et curieuses de voyages, en Allemagne, Angleterre, Hollande, Boheme, Suisse, &c.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated into English as Travels thro' Germany, Bohemia, Swisserland, Holland, and other parts of Europe : describing the most considerable citys and the pal…

1915 CE

#12573

Report of first expedition to South America 1913.

Strong was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard. The Harvard School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1913, the year they undertook this expedition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1880 CE–1895 CE

#9626

Report on the scientific results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76, under the command of Captain George S. Nares… and Captain Frank Tourle Thomson. 42 vols. in 50.

This work edited by John Murray and Charles Wyville Thomson, and completed by Murray after Thomson's death, was published over a 15 year period, and included about 29,500 pages and more than 3,280 plates. It treated i…

1817 CE

#8816

Results of an investigation, respecting epidemic and pestilential diseases; including researches in the Levant, concerning the plague. 2 vols.

"From 1815 to 1817 Maclean travelled in Spain, Turkey, and the Levant, and he studied the plague at the Greek Pest Hospital at Constantinople, in the service of the Levant Company. His experiences in the Levant and in…

1997 CE

#7370

Scientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.

1877 CE

#12324

Seeking the golden fleece: A record of pioneer life in California, to which is annexed footprints of early navigators, other than Spanish, in California, with an account of the voyage of the schooner Dolphin.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1843 CE

#12660

Sierra Leone: A Description of the manners and customs of the liberated Africans; with observations upon the natural history of the colony, and a notice of the native tribes.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1867 CE

#11705

Sketches of the inhabitants, animal life and vegetation in the lowlands and high mountains of Ceylon: As well as of the submarine scenery near the coast taken from a diving bell.

This work was illustrated with 26 tinted lithographs of natives and scenery in Sri Lanka after drawings from nature by the author, of which four were colored reproductions of underwater scenes made by the author using…

1830 CE

#9713

Sketches of the medical topography of the Mediterranean; comprising an account of Gibraltar, the Ionian Islands, and Malta. To which is prefixed a sketch of a plan for memoirs on medical topography

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

c. 2000 CE

#9826

Smithsonian Libraries: Digital Library: Natural and physical sciences.

https://library.si.edu/digital-library/natural-and-physical-sciences "About Our Collections "The Libraries' physical collections comprise 1.5 million books and manuscripts, along with over 400,000 pieces of ephemera, …

1922 CE

#8712

South America from a surgeon's point of view.

Martin, "Director-General, American College of Surgeons," and Managing Editor, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, visited South American with William J. Mayo, who wrote the introduction. Digital facsimile from Google…

1927 CE

#8711

South America, amplified to include all of Latin America: The Vandyck Cruise.

Medical visits to Latin America on behalf of the American College of Surgeons, of which Martin was a founder. Includes chapters by William J. Mayo, among others.

1519 CE

#9962

Summa de Geografia que trata de todas las partidas e provincias del mundo en especial de las indias e trata largamente del arte del marcar...

This was the first book on the Americas printed in Spanish. "Enciso was the first conquistadore to take up his pen with educational intent." In this general treatise on geography Enciso included a discussion of the fa…

1999 CE

#7371

Surveying the record: North American scientific exploration to 1930, edited by Edward C. Carter II.

1935 CE

#7449

T. H. Huxley's diary of the voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake. Edited from the unpublished ms

Huxley served as assistant surgeon and naturalist aboard the Rattlesnake (1845-50) which made cruises from Australia to Louisiade Archipelago, New Guinea and Cape York. His diary is illustrated with his own drawings.

1930 CE

#12459

The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.

"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…

2008 CE

#13653

The Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.

http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage "This on-going project aims to locate, digitise, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish the surviving correspondence and other manuscripts of the important 19th centur…

1842 CE

#11764

The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage; comprising an account of the plants collected by Messrs Lay and Collie, and other officers of the expedition during the voyage to the Pacific and Bering's Strait, performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey...in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1843 CE–1859 CE

#7448

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843.

Part 1: Flora of Lord Auckland and Campbell's Islands (1843-45); Part 2: Flora of Fuegia, the Falklands, Karguellen's land, etc. (1845-47); Part 3: Flora of New Zealand. 2 vols. (1851-53); Part 4: Flora of Tasmania. 2…

1844 CE

#9169

The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher....Edited and superintended by Richard Brinsley Hinds. The botanical descriptions by George Bentham.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1756 CE

#13448

The civil and natural history of Jamaica. In three parts, containing 1. An accurate description of that Island, its situation and soil; with a brief account of its former and present state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. II. A history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils, perfect and imperfect vegetables, quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, and physic. III. An account of the nature of climate in general, and their different effects upon the human body; with a detail of the diseases arising from this source, particularly within the tropics....illustrated with fifty copper-plates...in natural size....

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2016 CE

#9922

The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, Published by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program.

http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm "The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a seri…

1912 CE

#7482

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.

1873 CE

#7483

The depths of the sea. An account of the general results of the dredging cruises of H. M. SS. 'Porcupine' and 'Lightning during the summers of 1868, 1869, and 1870, under the scientific direction of Dr. Carpenter, F.R.S., J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., and Dr. Wyville Thomson, F.R.S.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1793 CE

#13041

The history of Dahomy, an inland kingdom of Africa; compiled from authentic memoirs; with an introduction and notes.

Dalzel studied medicine at Edinburgh, and served in the Royal Navy as a surgeon during the Seven Years’ War (1756–63). Discharged in 1763, he accepted a position as a surgeon in the Company of Merchants Tr…

1821 CE

#12757

The history of plague, as it has lately appeared in the islands of Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cephalonia, &c. detailing specific contagion of that disease, with particulars of the means adeopted for its eradication.

Concerns the Maltese plague,. 1813-1814. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1907 CE

#14162

The journal of Dr. John Morgan of Philadelphia from the city of Rome to the city of London 1764. Together with a fragment of a journal written at Rome, 1764, and a biographical sketch.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1998 CE

#13325

The journals of Hippolito Ruiz: Spanish botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria José Nemry von Thenen de Jarmillo-Arango.