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  • A treatise on the medicinal leech; including its medical and natural history, with a description of its anatomical structure; also remarks upon the diseases, preservation and management of leeches / [James Rawlins Johnson].
  • A treatise on the medicinal leech; including its medical and natural history, with a description of its anatomical structure; also remarks upon the diseases, preservation and management of leeches / [James Rawlins Johnson].
  • Putti perform an anatomical dissection on a dog; others hold a jar containing a human foetus; two more play with a spider; representing anatomy and natural history. Etching by B. Picart, 1729.
  • The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation / By Alex. Russell, M. D.
  • The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation / By Alex. Russell, M. D.
  • The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation / By Alex. Russell, M. D.
  • On animal and vegetable parasites of the human body : a manual of their natural history, diagnosis, and treatment / by Frederich Küchenmeister ; translated from the 2nd German ed., by Edwin Lankester.
  • Vegetable staticks: or, an account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables: being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation. Also, a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air / [Stephen Hales].
  • The natural history of Selborne / By the late Rev. Gilbert White... To which are added, the naturalist's calendar [by G. White and W. Markwick], miscellaneous observations [with remarks by Mr. Markwick], and poems. [Edited, by J.W. i.e. John White].
  • The natural history of Selborne / By the late Rev. Gilbert White... To which are added, the naturalist's calendar [by G. White and W. Markwick], miscellaneous observations [with remarks by Mr. Markwick], and poems. [Edited, by J.W. i.e. John White].
  • The natural history of Selborne / By the late Rev. Gilbert White... To which are added, the naturalist's calendar [by G. White and W. Markwick], miscellaneous observations [with remarks by Mr. Markwick], and poems. [Edited, by J.W. i.e. John White].
  • Osmanthus delavayi Franch. Oleaceae Evergreen shrub. Distribution: China. Osmanthus is derived from the Greek for 'fragrant flower', delavayi from its discoverer, the French Missionary with the Missions Étrangères, and plant collector, Pierre Delavay (1834-1895). He sent 200,000 herbarium specimens containing 4000 species including 1,500 new species to Franchet at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. He sent seed of O. delavayi to France (1886), but only one germinated, and all the plants in cultivation until it was recollected 40 years later, arose from this plant (Bretschneider, 1896). The flowers are used to make a tea in China, but the berries (drupes) are not regarded as edible. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Serratula tinctoria subsp. seoanei (Willk.)M.Lainz Asteraceae. Saw-wort (in the USA called Dyer's plumeless saw-wort). Distribution: Europe. Named after Dr Victor Lopez Seoane (1832-1900) a Spanish naturalist and physician who was Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Natural History in Corunna. He attained a certain infamy in that three of the subspecies of birds which he published as new discoveries were in leaflets dated 1870 and 1891 but were actually published in 1894, the discovery of which rendered two of his discoveries attributable to others (Ferrer, in Ingenium 7:345-377 (2001). This plant was described by Heinrich Willkomm in 1899 as Serratula seoanei, but M. Lainz, in 1979, decided it was merely a subspecies of Serratula tinctoria, a plant described by Linnaeus (1753). Linnaeus based his description on a plant with a woodcut in Dodoens' Pemptades (1583), saying it had pinnate leaves. However, that woodcut is of two different plants, and when re-used by Gerard (1633) he pointed out that Tabernamontanus (1625) had a woodcut of them and a third plant all with leaves varying from just pinnate to entire. Whatever, the leaves on Serratula tinctorius subsp. seoanei are very distinct, but while pinnate the leaflets are exceedingly narrowly and deeply dissected, Gerard (1633) writes that it is 'wonderfully commended to be most singular [useful] for wounds, ruptures, burstings, and such like...' It is a dye plant, containing luteolin, the same yellow dye as is present in Reseda luteola (source of the dye 'weld'). Seoane also has a viper, Vipera seoanei, named after him
  • Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, captain Fifth infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, brevet captain U.S. engineers ; with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations.
  • Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, captain Fifth infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, brevet captain U.S. engineers ; with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations.
  • Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, captain Fifth infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, brevet captain U.S. engineers ; with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations.
  • Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, captain Fifth infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, brevet captain U.S. engineers ; with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations.
  • Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, captain Fifth infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, brevet captain U.S. engineers ; with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.