In the Fall, Dr. Arnold Dunn's History of Biology class visits the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library to view materials from USC's Hancock Collection. The following books are discussed and examined. They are listed in alphabetical order by author. Questions regarding items listed on this page may be referred to Melinda K. Hayes, Natural History Librarian in Special Collections, USC.
Aristotle.
Selections. Latin
Aristotelis et Theophrasti Historiae : cum de natura animalium, tum de plantis & earum causis, cuncta fere, quae Deus opt. max. homini contemplanda exhibuit, ad amussim complectentes : nunc iam suo restitutae nitori, & mendis omnibus, quoad fieri potuit, repurgatae : cvm indice copiosissimo : ex quo superfluum quod erat, decerpsimus : quod uero necessarium nobis uisum est, superaddidimus. Lugduni : Apud Gulielmum Rouillium, 1552.
Translation of Aristotle's [Peri ta zoia istoriai, Peri zoion morion, Peri zoion geneseos, Peri zoion kineseos, Peri zoion poreias (romanized form)] ; and Theophrastus' [Periphuton istorias, Peri phuton aition (romanized form)]
Location: Hancock in Special Collections Q155.A716 1552Agassiz, Louis, 18071873.
Principles of zoology : touching the structure, development, distribution, and natural arrangement of the races of animals, living and extinct : with numerous illustrations : Part I : comparative physiology for the use of schools and colleges. Boston : Gould and Lincoln, 1858.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Location: QL47.A28 1858Baer, Karl Ernst von, 17921876.
Über Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere : Beobachtung und Reflexion. Erster[zweiter] Theil. Konigsberg : Bei den Gebrudern Borntrager, 182837.
Location: QL955.B28 1828Bonnet, Charles, 17201793.
Contemplation de la nature. English.
The contemplation of nature. London : Printed for T. Longman ... and T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt ..., 1766.
Location: Hancock in Special Collections QH45.B717 1766, v.1-2Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, comte de, 17071788.
Buffon's Natural history, abridged : including the history of the elements, the earth, mountains, rivers, seas, winds, whirlwinds, waterspouts, volcanoes, earthquakes, man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, shellfish, lizards, serpents, insects, and vegetables. London : Published for C. and G. Kearsley, 1792.
Location: Hancock in Special Collections QH45.B83 1792, v.1-2Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 17071788.
Histoire naturelle : générale et particuliere ; avec la description du Cabinet de roi. Paris : De l'Imprimerie royale, 17491789.
Contents: t. 1. De la maniere d'étudier et de traiter l'histoire naturelle. Histoire et théorie de la terre / par m. Buffon. 1749.t. 2. Histoire générale des animaux. Histoire naturelle de l'homme / par m. de Buffon. 1799.t. 3. Description du Cabinet du roy / par m. Daubenton. Histoire naturelle de l'homme / par m. de Buffon. 1749.5.415. [Quadrupeds] / par m. de Buffon et m. Daubenton. 175367. Supplément. 7 v. / par m. de Buffon. 177489.t. 1624. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux / par m. de Buffon et m. Gueneau de Montbeillard. 9 v. 175283..t. [2529] Histoire naturelle des minéraux / par m. de Buffon.
Location: Hancock in Special Collections QH45.B77, v.1-36Chambers, Robert, 18021871.
Vestiges of the natural history of creation. New York, Wiley and Putnam, 1845.
Location: QL363.C4Cuvier, Georges, baron, 17691832.
Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles : ou l'on retablit les characteres de plusieurs animaux dont les revolutions du globe ont detruit les especes. Paris : G. Dufour et E. d'Ocagne, 1825.
Edition: 3. ed.
Location: Hancock in Special Collections fQE710.C972 1825, v.1-4, 5 pt. 3, FolioCuvier, Georges, baron, 17691832.
Le regne animal distribue d'apres son organisation : pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparee. Paris : Deterville, 1817.
Contents: t. 1. L'introduction, les mammiferes et les oiseaux t. 2. Les reptiles, les poissons, les mollusques, et les annelides t. 3. Les crustaces, les arachnides et les insectes, par M. Latreille t. 4. Les zoophytes, les tables, et les planches.
Location: QL45.C87 1817, v.1-4Cuvier, Georges, baron, 17691832.
Le regne animal. English 18271835
The animal kingdom : arranged in conformity with its organization. London : Printed for G.B. Whittaker ..., 18271835.
Contents: v. 14. The class Mammalia / arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with specific descriptions by Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith and Edward Pidgeon. 1827 v. 5. Synopsis of the species of the class Mammalia, as arranged with reference to their organization by Cuvier and other naturalists : with specific characters, synonyma, &c. &c. 1827 v. 68. The class Aves / arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with specific descriptions by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon, the additional species inserted in the text of Cuvier by John Edward Gray. 1829 v. 9. The class Reptilia / arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with specific descriptions by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon. 1831 v. 10. The class Pisces / arranged by the Baron Cuvier,with supplementary additions by Edward Griffith and Charles Hamilton Smith. 1834 v. [11]. The fossil remains of the animal kingdom / by Edward Pidgeon. 1830 v. 12. The Mollusca and Radiata / arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with supplementary additions to each order by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon. 1834. The classes Annelida, Crustacea, and Arachnida / arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with supplementary additions to each order by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon. 1833 v. 1415. The class Insecta / arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with supplementary additions to each order by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon, and notices of new genera and species by George Gray. 1832.
Location: QL45.C8713 1827, v.5, 11-14, 16Darwin, Charles, 18091882.
On the origin of the species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin ... London, J. Murray, 1859.
Location: QH361-1.D228O 1859Darwin, Charles, 18091882.
On the origin of species by means of natural selection : or The preservations of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1860.
Edition: A new edition / revised and augmented by the author.
Location: QH365.O2 1860aDarwin, Erasmus, 17311802.
Zoonomia : or, The laws of organic life. London : J. Johnson, 1801.
Edition: The 3d ed., cor.
Location: QP29.D22 1801, v.1-4Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné.
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers ... mis en ordre & publié par m. Diderot. Paris: Briasson, 1751-1765.
Location: from Clark Library collectionsFrance. Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte.
Description de l'Egypte : ou, Recueil de observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l'expedition de l'armee francaise publie par les ordres de Sa Majeste l'empereur Napoleon le Grand. Paris : Imprimerie imperiale, 180928.
Contents: Antiquities: Descriptions, 180918, 2 v. (v.5); Memoires 180918, 2 v.; Planches, 180922, 5 v. (v.69) Histoire naturelle, 180912, 2 v. in 3; Planches, 180917, 2 v. (v.1718) Histoire naturelle, 180912, 2 v.; Planches, 1809[ca.26], 2 v. in 3. (Vol. II, pt. 2 has no t.p.) Carte topographique. [1818] (v.20) Etat modern, planches, 2 v. (v.1314) Preface et explication des planches (Uniform with the volumes of plates; binder's title only)
Location: Hancock in Special Collections ffDT46.F8 1809, v.5-9, 13-14, 17-21, FolioGeoffroy SaintHilaire, Isidore, 18051861.
Essais de zoologie generale : ou Memoires et notices sur la zoologie generale, l'anthropologie, et l'histoire de la science. Paris : Roret, 1841.
Location: QL3.G34 1841Gray, Asa, 18101888.
Scientific papers of Asa Gray, selected by Charles Sprague Sargent. Boston : New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889.
Location: QK3.G77 1889, v.1-2Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, 18341919.
The evolution of man : a popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogeny. New York : Appleton, 1879.
Location: QH368.H2 1879, v.1-2Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.
Micrographia: or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. London: printed by J. Martyn and J. Allestry, 1665.
Location: Hancock in Special Collections fQH271.H79 1665Huxley, Thomas Henry, 18251895.
Evidence as to man's place in nature. New York: D. Appleton and co., 1863.
Location: QH368.H96 1863Huxley, Thomas Henry, 18251895.
Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy. On the classification of animals and on the vertebrate skull. London : J. Churchill and Sons, 1864.
Location: QL805.H98 1864Huxley, Thomas Henry, 18251895.
On the origin of species : or, The causes of the phenomena of organic nature, a course of six lectures to working men. New York : D. Appleton, 1871.
Location: QH367.H98 1871Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 17441829.
Philosophie zoologique, ou Exposition des considerations relatives a l'histoire naturelle des animaux. Paris : G. Bailliere; [etc., etc.] 1830.
Edition: Nouv. ed.
Location: QL45.L21 1830Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van, 16321723.
Arcana naturae detecta. Delphis Batavorum, apud Henricum a Krooneveld, 1695.
Location: Hancock in Special Collections QH271.L48Linné, Carl von, 17071778.
Systema naturae : sistens regna tria naturae, in classes et ordines genera et species redacta tabulisque aeneis illustrata. Lipsiae : G. Kiesewetter, 1748.
Edition: Secundam sextam stockholmensem emendatam et auctam editionem.
Location: Hancock in Special Collections QH43.S83 1748Lyell, Charles, Sir, 17971875.
Principles of geology : being an inquiry how far the former changes of the earth's surface are referable to causes now in operation. London : J. Murray, 1837.
Location: QE26.L956 1837a, v.1-4Lyell, Charles, Sir, 17971875.
Principles of geology : being an inquiry how far the former changes of the earth's surface are referable to causes now in operation. Philadelphia : J. Kay, jun. & brother ; Pittsburg : J.I. Kay & co., 1837.
Edition: 1st American from the 5th and last London ed.
Location: QE26.L956 1837b, v.1-2Malpighi, Marcello, 16281694.
Opera omnia : figuris elegantissimis in aes incisis, illustrata. Tomis duobus comprehensa, quorum calatogum sequens pagina exhibet. Londoni : Apud Robertum Scott & Georgum Wells, 1686.
Contents: v.1. Anatome Plantarum v.2. Operum tomus secundus Seminum vegetatione: 1. De Gallis. 2. De varius plantarum tumoribus et ex crecentiis. 3. De radicibus plantarum. Epistolae: 1. De bombyce. 2. De formatione pulli in ovo. 3. De ovo incubato. 4. De cerebro. 5. De lingua. 6. De externo tactus organo. 7. Exercitatio de omento, pinguedine et adiposis ductibus. 8. De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica. Dissertationes eiusdem de polypo cordis, et de pulmonibus.
Location: Hancock in Special Collections fQH41.M298Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
Rime di Michelagnolo Buonarroti, raccolte da Michelagnolo suo Nipote. In Firenze : Appresso I Giunti con licenzia de' superiori, M.DC.XXIII. [i.e. 1623]
Location: Lion Feuchtwanger Memorial Library (Special Collections) PQ4615.B6A6 1623Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Cantabrigiae, [1713]
Location: Special Collections 192.N563p 1713Owen, Richard, 18041892.
Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals : delivered at the Royal college of surgeons, in 1843. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843.
Location: QL363.O97 1843Paley, William, 17431805.
Natural theology : or, Evidences of the existence and attributes of the Deity. Boston : Gould and Lincoln, 1855, c1854.
Edition: [Rev. American ed.]
Location: BL181.P3Ray, John, 16271705.
Three physicotheological discourses : concerning I. The primitive chaos, and creation of the world. II. The general Deluge, its causes and effects. III. The dissolution of the world and future conflagration. Wherein are largely discussed, the production and use of mountains, the original of fountains, of formed stones, and seafishes bones and shells found in the earth; the effects of particular floods, and inundations of the sea; the eruptions of vulcano's; the nature and causes of earthquakes. Also an historical account of those two late remarkable ones in Jamaica and England. With practical inferences. London : Printed for William and John Innys, 1721.
Edition: The fourth edition.
Location: Hancock in Special Collections QE25.R39 1721Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854.
Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur: erstes, zweytes Buch. Leipzig, 1797.
Notes: From the Gomperz Collection, Hoose, Library of Philosophy.
Location: Special Collections 193.S322ISchelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854.
Von der Weltseele: eine Hypothese der hören Physik zur Erlkärung des allgemeinen Organismus. Hamburg: F. Perthes, 1806.
Edition: 2. verbesserte Auflage.
Notes: From the Gomperz Collection, Hoose, Library of Philosophy.
Location: Special Collections 193.S322Von 1806Sedgwick, Adam, 18541913.
A student's textbook of zoology. London : S. Sonnenschein and Co. ; New York : Macmillan Co., 18981909.
Location: QL47.S448 1898Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564.
Opera omnia anatomica & chirurugica. Ludgduni Batavorum: apud Joannem du Vivie, et Joan. & Herm. Verbeek, 1725
Location: Hancock in Special Collections ffQM21.V575 1725Wallace, Alfred Russel, 18231913.
Contributions to the theory of natural selection : a series of essays. New York : Macmillan, 1871.
Edition: 2d ed., with corrections and additions.
Location: QH366.W19 1871Wallace, Alfred Russel, 18231913.
The geographical distribution of animals. With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the earth's surface. New York, Harper, 1876.
Location: QL101.W18, v.1-2Whewell, William, 17941866.
Astronomy and general physics considered with reference to natural theology. London : W. Pickering, 1834 [1833]
Edition: [4th ed.]
Series Title: Bridgewater treatises on the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation ; no.3
Location: Hancock in Special Collections BL175.B7 1833 no.3Whewell, William, 17941866.
History of the inductive sciences : from the earliest to the present times. London : J.W. Parker; [etc., etc.] 1837.
Location: Q125.W55 1837, v.1-3Whewell, William, 17941866.
Influence of the history of science upon intellectual education : a lecture before the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Boston : Gould and Lincoln, 1854.
Location: Q125.W555 1854Whewell, William, 17941866.
Novum organon renovatum. Being the second part of The philosophy of the inductive sciences. London : J. W. Parker and son, 1858.
Edition: The 3d ed., with large additions.
Notes: Pt. 1 published under title: History of scientific ideas.
Location: Q175.W55 1858Whewell, William, 17941866.
The philosophy of the inductive sciences, founded upon their history. London, J. W. Parker, 1840.
Location: Q175.W55, v.1-2The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.
The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836 : published with the approval of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, edited and superintended by Charles Darwin, Esq. London : published by Smith, Elder and Co., 18391843.
Contents: pt. I. Fossil mammalia, described by Richard Owen, Esq.; with a geological introduction, by Charles Darwin, Esq. pt. II. Mammalia, described by George R. Waterhouse, Esq.; with a notice of their habits and ranges, by Charles Darwin, Esq. pt. III. Birds, described by John Gould, Esq. ... ; with a notice of their habits and ranges, by Charles Darwin, Esq.; and with an anatomical appendix, by T.C. Eyton, Esq. pt. IV. Fish, described by the Rev. Leonard Jenyns. pt. V. Reptilia. / Described by Thomas Bell, Esq.
Location: Hancock in Special Collections fQL5.B3Z766 1839, v.12, 5 Folio
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