Facets

2015 CE

#11807

The coral reef era: From discovery to decline. A history of scientific investigation from 1600 to the anthropocene epoch.

1955 CE

#6928

The crystal structure of the hexacarboxylic acid derived from B12 and the molecular structure of the vitamin.

The final structure of vitamin B12. With J. Pickworth, J.H. Robertson, K.N. Trueblood, R.J. Prosen, J. G. White. In 1964 Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of …

1980 CE

#7970

The death of nature: Women, ecology and the scientific revolution.

Reprinted with addition of a new preface, 1990.

2002 CE

#9565

The evolution of the conservation movement, 1850-1920.

https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html "documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government…

1939 CE

#6594

The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.

A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.

1881 CE

#8913

The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits.

Darwin's last book, published only 6 months before his death, but reporting on a subject that he had studied for more than 50 years. "He showed the services performed by earthworms in eating leaves and grinding earth …

2009 CE

#13038

The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.

"... documents the history of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), a group of health professionals who delivered health care to wounded protesters and victims of police violence during the Civil Rights Movem…

2006 CE

#7962

The Humboldt current: Nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism.

1906 CE

#12739

The jungle.

Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …

1887 CE

#145.62

The lake as a microcosm.

Forbes was the first to apply ecological principles to limnology. He emphasized population regulation and the dynamic nature of the community.

1992 CE

#8054

The Norton history of the environmental sciences.

1957 CE

#7386

The path of carbon in photosynthesis.

Discovery of the Calvin cycle, also known as the Calvin–Benson–Bassham (CBB) cycle, or reductive pentose phosphate cycle or C3 cycle — a series of biochemical redox reactions that take place in the s…

1971 CE

#10678

The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: A study of the Tsetse fly problem.

1964 CE

#6610.3

The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits.

Descriptions of the portraits by D. Piper. Wolstenholme and J.F. Kerslake edited Vol. 2 of the study, with essays by R. Ekkart and D. Piper, Oxford, Elsevier, 1977.

2020 CE

#13774

The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.

2016 CE

#8106

The smoke of London: Energy and environment in the early modern city.

1996 CE

#10435

The song of the Dodo: Island biogeography in an age of extinctions.

1842 CE

#8916

The structure and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R. N. During the years 1832 to 1836.

With slight modification, Darwin's work remains the accepted explanation for these phenomena. "Even if he had done nothing else, the theory of the coral islands alone would have placed Darwin in the very front of inve…

1934 CE

#145.66

The struggle for existence.

Gause developed the concept of competitive exclusion as formulated by Volterra.

1967 CE

#8155

The theory of island biogeography.

MacArthur and Wilson showed that the species richness of an area could be predicted in terms of such factors as habitat area, immigration rate and extinction rate.

1788 CE

#13593

The theory of rain.

In this paper on the operation of the water-cycle in meteorology Hutton hypothesized that rain was caused by a mixture of air currents of differing temperatures, either saturated or nearly saturated with moisture. "Hi…

1942 CE

#145.67

The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology.

“The birth of ecosystem ecology” (McIntosh). Lindeman described energy flow in ecosystems in a form amenable to productive abstract analysis. This paper introduced what came to be known as the "Ten percent…

1911 CE

#9180

The world of life: A manifestation of creative power, directive mind and ultimate purpose.

"Wallace's comments on environment grew more strident later in his career. In The World of Life (1913) he wrote: "These considerations should lead us to look upon all the works of nature, animate or inanimate, as inve…

1878 CE

#9174

Tropical nature and other essays.

"Wallace's extensive work in biogeography made him aware of the impact of human activities on the natural world. In Tropical Nature and Other Essays (1878), he warned about the dangers of deforestation and soil erosio…

1901 CE

#12789

Über oligonitrophile Mikroben.

Discovery of nitrogen fixation, the process by which diatomic nitrogen gas is converted to ammonium ions and becomes available to plants. Bacteria perform nitrogen fixation, dwelling inside root nodules of certain pla…

1896 CE

#13046

Ueber den Einfluss des atmosphärischen Kohlensäuregehalts auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche.

Arrhenius used basic principles of physical chemistry to estimate the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are responsible for the Earth's increasing surface temperature, the "greenhouse effect."

2016 CE

#10421

Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.

"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…

1926 CE

#145.64

Variazioni e fluttuazioni del numero d’individui in specie animali conviventi.

The mathematician Volterra created the basic equations for two species interactions. Abridged English translation as appendix to R. Chapman, Animal ecology, New York, 1931.

1807 CE–1834 CE

#7452

Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. 34 vols.

In 1799 Humboldt and Bonpland embarked on a six-year tour of research through South America and Mexico, a trip which would afterwards be called, justifiably, "the scientific discovery of America." The two amassed exha…