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Fleeming Jenkin and <i>The Origin of Species</i>: A reassesment

Morris, S.W. · 1994 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 31, . . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 27(3), No. 94: 313-343 (complete issue - includes other papers)..

British women who contributed to research in the geological sciences in the nineteenth century

Creese, M.R.S.; Creese, T.M. · 1994 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 32, 1 text fig. . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 27(1), No. 92: 23-54 (complete issue - includes other papers)..

Eleanor Ormerod (1828-1901) as an economic entomologist: 'pioneer of purity even more than Paris Green'

Clark, J.F. McDiarmid · 1992 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 22, . . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 25(4), No. 87: 431-452 (complete issue - includes other papers)..

Alfred Russel Wallace: Some notes on the Welsh Connection

Hughes, R. Elwyn · 1989 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 18, 3 text figs. . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 22(4), No. 75: 401-418 (complete issue - includes other papers)..

From Lake Nyassa to Philadelphia: a geography of the Zambesi Expedition, 1858-64

Dritsas, L. · 2005 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 18, 1 text fig. . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers, spine faded. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 38(1), No. 136: 35-52 (complete issue - includes other papers). With a focus on shells collected by John Kirk during David Livingston'...

Cataloguing power: delineating 'component naturalists' and the meaning of species in the British Museum

McOuat, G. · 2001 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 28, . . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 31(1), No. 40: 1-28 (complete issue - includes other papers). Examining the role and authority of the British Museum in the standards and discourse of naming...

The John Innes Horticultural Institution 1910-1935

1935 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 58, . . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Name to front cover. Vg.. The John Innes Horticultural Institution (now known as the John Innes Centre), is a leading plant and microbial research centre, originally located in Merton Park, 1910. The centre is most fa...

Whatever is Under the Earth: The Geological Society of London 1807 to 2007

Herries Davies, G.L. · 2007 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Geological Society London xiii, 356, 8 col plates (11 figs), numerous b/w photos + text figs. . HB. Vg. Top corner of front board lightly bumped. From the library of John H. Callomon (1928-2010), Professor of Geology at University College London, with his ownership stamp to en...

Lyell Centenary Issue. Papers delivered at the Charles Lyell Centenary Symposium London 1975

1976 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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British Society for the History of Science London (152), . . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>The British Journal of the History of Science</i> Vol. IX, Part 2, No. 32: 89-242..

Notes on Insects, 1692 & 1695 by Charles duBois

Jessop, L. (Ed.) · 1989 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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British Museum (Natural History) London 165, Facsimile of manuscript. . PB. Vg.. <i>Bulletin British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series</i> 17(1). This is a facsimile and transcription of Charles duBois' (1656-1740) fascinating diary of entomological notes, observation...

Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717-91) and the <i>Conchology, of natural history of shells</i>

Whitehead, P.J.P. · 1977 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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BM(NH) London 24, . . PB. Vg.. <i>Bulletin British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series</i> Vol. 6(1)..

Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy: The Life and Science of Ernst Mayr 1904-2005

Haffer, J. · 2008 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Springer Berlin ix, 474, text figs. . PB. Vg. Name to endpaper.. This book is the first detailed biography of Ernst Mayr. He was an 'architect' of the synthetic theory of evolution, and the greatest evolutionary biologist since Charles Darwin, an outstanding taxonomist, ornith...

British Scientific Literature in the Seventeenth Century

Davy, N. (Ed.) · 1970 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Kennikat Press 244, . . HB. 8vo, orig. buckram. Vg. Name and ownership stamp to endpaper.. Reprint (first publuished 1953).. [9780804609470]

Butterfly Cooing like a Dove

Rothschild, Miriam · 1991 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Doubleday London xv, 215, col illus. . HB. Vg in d/w. Foot of spine bumped with corresponding small tear to d/w.. In this informal autobiographical anthology, the author follows the trail of wings through history, art, science, and literature.. [9780385269155]

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life

Raby, P. · 2001 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Chatto & Windus London xi, 340, b/w photos, illus, maps. . HB. Vg in d/w (small labels removed from spine). Marginal browning to paper. From the library of David R. Nellist, British arachnologist, with his name and ownership stamp to endpaper.. Biography of scientist and explo...

Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist

Roos, A.M. · 2011 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Brill Leiden xx, 478, text figs. . HB. Vg. From the library of David R. Nellist, British arachnologist, with his name to endpaper. Book review tipped in at front.. This first full-length biography of Dr Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Phys...

The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus

Blunt, W. · 2001 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Frances Lincoln London 264, col + b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w. Name and ownership stamp to endpaper.. Newly revised and updated edition of the definitive biography of Linnaeus. Introduction by W.T. Stearn.. [9780711218413]

Darwin

Desmond, A.; Moore, J. · 1991 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Michael Joseph London xxi, 808, 91 b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w (price-clipped). From the library of David R. Nellist, British arachnologist, with his name and ownership stamp to endpaper.. . [978071813430]

RHS Lessons from Great Gardeners: Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us

Biggs, Matthew · 2015 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Hachette 224, col photos, col illus. . HB. Vg. Minor wear to head and foot of spine.. Profiles forty remarkable figures in the history of gardening.. [9781784720810]

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. Volume I-II

Huxley, L.; [Huxley, Thomas Henry] · 1900 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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MacMillan London viii, [3], 503, [4]-ads; vi, [3], 504, [4]-ads, 2 portrait frontispieces, 9 b/w plates, 1 text illus. . HB. 2 vols, roy. 8vo, orig. maroon cloth, some wear to head and foot of spines, boards lightly marked, spines slightly faded. Several hinges partly cracked,...