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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists

Exhibiting 193 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1979 CEOnly one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
CHUINARD, Eldon G. (1904 – 1993)
1831 CE​–1839 CEOrnithological 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.
AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851)
AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851)
MACGILLIVRAY, William (1796 – 1852)
MACGILLIVRAY, William (1796 – 1852)
1758 CEPetri 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.
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778) LÖFLING, Pehr (1729 – 1756)
2004 CEPlants and empire: Colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world.
SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
1557 CERaiss Büchlein…mit güten Mitteln der Artzney Begegnen Soll.
PICTORIUS, Georg (1500 – 1569)
PICTORIUS, Georg (1500 – 1569)
1771 CE​–1776 CEReise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. 3 vols.
PALLAS, Peter Simon (1741 – 1811)
PALLAS, Peter Simon (1741 – 1811)
1824 CE​–1827 CEReise im Norden Europa's, vorzüglich in Island: in den Jahren 1820 bis 1821. 2 vols.
GÜNTHER, Gustav Biedermann (1801 – 1866) THIENEMANN, Friedrich August Ludwig (1793 – 1858)
1890 CEReisebilder aus Liberia: Resultate geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnographischer untersuchungen während der jahre 1879-1882 und 1886-1887. 2 vols.
BÜTTIKOFER, Johann (1850 – 1928)
1717 CERelation 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.
TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656 – 1708)
TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656 – 1708)
1676 CERelations historiques et curieuses de voyages, en Allemagne, Angleterre, Hollande, Boheme, Suisse, &c.
PATIN, Charles (1633 – 1693)
PATIN, Charles (1633 – 1693)
1915 CEReport of first expedition to South America 1913.
TYZZER, Ernest Edward (1875 – 1965)
TYZZER, Ernest Edward (1875 – 1965)
STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948) SELLARDS, Andrew Watson (1884 – 1941) BRUES, Charles Thomas (1879 – 1955) GASTIABURU, J. C. HARVARD SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE
1880 CE​–1895 CEReport 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.
MURRAY, John (1841 – 1914)
MURRAY, John (1841 – 1914)
THOMSON, Charles Wyville (1830 – 1882)
THOMSON, Charles Wyville (1830 – 1882)
NARES, George Strong (1831 – 1915)
NARES, George Strong (1831 – 1915)
1817 CEResults of an investigation, respecting epidemic and pestilential diseases; including researches in the Levant, concerning the plague. 2 vols.
MACLEAN, Charles (1760 – 1824)
1997 CEScientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.
DEACON, Margaret Elsa
1877 CESeeking 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.
STILLMAN, Jacob David Babcock (1819 – 1888)
1843 CESierra 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.
CLARKE, Robert B.
CLARKE, Robert B.
1830 CESketches 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
HENNEN, John (1779 – 1828)
c. 2000 CESmithsonian Libraries: Digital Library: Natural and physical sciences.
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
1922 CESouth America from a surgeon's point of view.
MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
1927 CESouth America, amplified to include all of Latin America: The Vandyck Cruise.
MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
1519 CESumma de Geografia que trata de todas las partidas e provincias del mundo en especial de las indias e trata largamente del arte del marcar...
FERNÁNDEZ DE ENCISO, Martín (1470 – 1528)
1999 CESurveying the record: North American scientific exploration to 1930, edited by Edward C. Carter II.
CARTER, Edward C. II (1928 – 2002)
1935 CET. H. Huxley's diary of the voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake. Edited from the unpublished ms
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825 – 1895)
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825 – 1895)
HUXLEY, Sir Julian Sorell (1887 – 1975)
HUXLEY, Sir Julian Sorell (1887 – 1975)
1930 CEThe 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.
STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
2008 CEThe Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
1842 CEThe 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
LAY, George Tradescant (1800 – 1845)
BEECHEY, Frederick William (1796 – 1856)
BEECHEY, Frederick William (1796 – 1856)
HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (1785 – 1865)
HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (1785 – 1865) WALKER-ARNOTT, George Arnott (1799 – 1868) COLLIE, Alexander (1793 – 1835)
1843 CE​–1859 CEThe botany of the Antarctic voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843.
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
1844 CEThe 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.
HINDS, Richard Brinsley (1811 – 1846)
BENTHAM, George (1800 – 1884)
BENTHAM, George (1800 – 1884)
2016 CEThe David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, Published by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program.
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
1912 CEThe 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.
MURRAY, John (1841 – 1914)
MURRAY, John (1841 – 1914)
HJORT, Johan (1869 – 1948)
HJORT, Johan (1869 – 1948)
1873 CEThe 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.
THOMSON, Charles Wyville (1830 – 1882)
THOMSON, Charles Wyville (1830 – 1882)
1793 CEThe history of Dahomy, an inland kingdom of Africa; compiled from authentic memoirs; with an introduction and notes.
DALZEL, Archibald (Dalziel) (1740 – 1811)
DALZEL, Archibald (Dalziel) (1740 – 1811)
1821 CEThe 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.
TULLY, James D.
TULLY, James D.
1998 CEThe 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.
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001) LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816) JARAMILLO-ARANGO, María José Nemry von Thenen de
1874 CEThe Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa. From eighteen hundred and sixty-five to his death. Continued by a narrative of his last Moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller, F.R.G.S.
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
WALLER, Horace (1833 – 1896)
WALLER, Horace (1833 – 1896)
2011 CEThe last slave market: Dr. John Kirk and the struggle to end the East African slave trade.
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922) HAZELL, Alastair
2007 CE​–2010 CEThe Linnaeus Apostles. Global science & adventure. 8 vols. in 11. General editor: Lars Hansen.
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
HANSEN, Lars
HANSEN, Lars
1860 CEThe Malay archipelago: The land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise. 2 vols.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
1776 CEThe method taken for preserving the health of the crew of H.M.S. the Resolution during her late voyage round the world. In: Sir John Pringle, A discourse upon some late improvements in the means for preserving the health of mariners.
PRINGLE, Sir John (1707 – 1782)
PRINGLE, Sir John (1707 – 1782)
COOK, James (1728 – 1779)
COOK, James (1728 – 1779)
1880 CEThe natural & moral history of Indies, by Father Joseph de Acosta. Reprinted from the English translated edition of Edward Grimston, 1604. And edited, with notes and an introduction by Clements R. Markham. Vol. 1: The natural history. Vol. 2: The moral history. 2 vols.
ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600)
ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600) MARKHAM, Sir Robert Clements (1830 – 1916)
1737 CEThe natural history of North Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c.
BRICKELL, John (1710 – 1745)
1874 CEThe naturalist in Nicaragua: A narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales; journeys in the savannahs and forests, with observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms.
BELT, Thomas (1832 – 1878)
BELT, Thomas (1832 – 1878)
1863 CEThe naturalist on the river Amazons, a record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols.
BATES, Henry Walter (1825 – 1892)
BATES, Henry Walter (1825 – 1892)
1772 CEThe naturalist's and traveller's companion. Containing instructions for discovering and preserving objects of natural history....
LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744 – 1815)
LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744 – 1815)
1865 CEThe North-West passage by land. Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains.
CHEADLE, Walter Butler (1836 – 1910)
CHEADLE, Walter Butler (1836 – 1910)
WENTWORTH-FITZWILLIAM, William Viscount Milton (1839 – 1877)
WENTWORTH-FITZWILLIAM, William Viscount Milton (1839 – 1877)
1807 CEThe Oriental voyager, or descriptive sketches and cursory remarks on a voyage to India and China in His Majesty's ship Caroline, performed in the years 1803–4–5–6. Interspersed with extracts from the best modern voyages and travels. The whole intended to exhibit a topographical and picturesque sketch of all the principal places which are annually or occasionally visited by our East Indian and China fleets....
JOHNSON, James (1777 – 1845)
JOHNSON, James (1777 – 1845)
1999 CEThe physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.
LIEBOWITZ, Daniel (1921 – 2014)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
1843 CEThe regions of vegetation; being an analysis of the distribution of vegetable forms over the surface of the globe in connexion with climate and physical agents.
HINDS, Richard Brinsley (1811 – 1846)
1842 CEThe 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.
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
1942 CEThe United States Exploring Expedition and its publications, 1844–1874: A bibliography
HASKELL, Daniel Carl (1883 – 1968)