Collection Items: Flora, Fauna, and the Human Form

Flora, Fauna, and the Human Form

Included here are biological and natural history studies depicting plant and animal forms, including works on herbs, insects, human physiognomy, genetics, and eugenics. This collection also includes works by and about Gregor Mendel. Digitiation Status: Ongoing.

Includes both volumes of Botanologia: The English Herbal or History of Plants.

Dictionnaire Classique Des Sciences Naturelles

Here is the multi-volume French language natural science reference work published in 1855. Includes colored plates.

Here are from the Mendel Collection including works by, and about, Gregor Johann Mendel, O.S.A. (1822-1884), Augustinian Friar and scientist as well as materials on early genetics and science. Mendel is known as the founder of genetics due to his study of the inheritance of characteristics in pea plants, but was also a meteorologist, a botanist, a bee keeper, church administrator, and banker.

Here are the volumes of Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on physiognomy.

Strange stories of the animal world : a book of curious contributions to natural history.

by Timbs, John, 1801-1875.
Published 1866

In collection: Flora, Fauna, and the Human Form

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Historiae naturalis de quadrupedibus libri. Cum aeneis figuris. Johannes Jonstonus, Medicinae Doctor, concinnavit.

by Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.
Published 1657

In collection: Flora, Fauna, and the Human Form

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An anatomical account of the elephant accidentally burnt in Dublin : on Fryday, June 17. in the year 1681 : sent in a letter to Sir Will. Petty ... together with a relation of new...

by Mullen, Allan.
Published 1682

In collection: Flora, Fauna, and the Human Form

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The self-instructor in phrenology and physiology with over one hundred new illustrations including a chart for the use of practical phrenologists / by O. S. & L. N. Fowler ... Rev...

by Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
Published 1889

In collection: Miscellaneous Single Issues (Non-Fiction)

In collection: Flora, Fauna, and the Human Form

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"The Truth about Vivisection" : a reply to an article by Ernest Harold Baynes which appeared in the "Woman's Home Companion" of July 1921 by Dr. Walter R. Hadwen ...

by Hadwen, Walter R.
Published 1921

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