45 READING LIST 



RICHARDSON. Disciples of .^Esculapius, 2 vols., igoi. Collected papers 



from The Asclepiad. Sympathetic accounts of Vesalius, Malpighi, 



J. Hunter, and others. Good illustrations. 

 LANKESTER. The History and Scope of Zoology, in The Advancement 



of Science, 1890. Good. Same article in Ency. Brit, under the title 



of Zoology. 



SPENCER. Principles of Biology, 2 vols., 1866. 

 HERTWIG. The Growth of Biology in the Nineteenth Century, Ann. 



Kept. Smith son. Inst., 1900. 



BUCKLE. History of Civilization, vol. I, second edition, 1870. 

 MACGILIVRAY. Lives of Eminent Zoologists from Aristotle to Linnaeus. 

 MERZ. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, vol. II, 



Scientific Thought, 1903. 

 ROUTLEDGE. A Popular History of Science. General and uncritical as 



to biology. 



HOEFER. Histoire de la Zoologie, 1873. Not very good. 

 ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. Among the more excellent articles are: 



Biology by Huxley; Protoplasm by Geddes; History of Anatomy 



by Turner. 



CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPEDIA. New Edition. Discerning articles by- 

 Thomson on the Cell-theory, by Geddes on Biology, Evolution. 

 NOUVELLE BIOGRAPHIE GENERALS. Good articles on the older writers. 



Often unreliable as to dates. 

 HAECKEL. The historical chapters in The Evolution of Man, 1892, and 



Anthropogenic, fifth edition, 1903. Good. 

 HAECKEL. The History of Creation, vol. I, 1884. 

 HERTWIG. The General Survey of the History of Zoology in his Manual 



of Zoology, 1902. Brief but excellent. 

 PARKER and HASWELL. Text-book of Zoology, 1897. Historical chapter 



in vol. II. 

 NICHOLSON. Natural History, its Rise and Progress in Britain, 1886. 



Also Biology. 



PETTIGREW. Gallery of Medical Portraits, 5 vols. Contains many por- 

 traits and biographical sketches of men of general influence, as Bichat, 



Galen, Malpighi, etc. 

 PUSCHMANN. Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin, 3 vols. Good for 



topics in anatomy and physiology. 

 BAAS. The History of Medicine, 1889. 

 RADL. Geschichte der Biologischen Theorien seit dcm Ende des Siebzehn- 



ten Jahrhundert, 1905. 

 JANUS. A Periodical devoted to the history of medicine and natural 



science, founded in 1896. 

 ZOOLOGISCHE ANNALEN. Founded by Max Braun in 1004 in the interests 



of the history of zoology. 



