SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 



This bibliography contains only titles of articles or of books in which 

 sections are devoted to knowledge of luminescences of various kinds. It 

 is not intended to be complete, but includes most of the important 

 contributions * of the period 1555 (Gesner's book on luminescence) to 

 1900. A few earlier and a few twentieth-century papers on special 

 discoveries are included. Sources of historical comment, and publications 

 with only casual reference to luminescence will usually be found in 

 footnotes. The page for a bibliographic footnote can be obtained from 

 the author index. 



Abney, W. de W. 1881, 1882. On lines in the infra-red region of the solar spectrum. 



Phil. Mag. (5), 11: 300-301; see also 13: 212-214. 

 1882. On the violet phosphorescence in calcium sulphide. Proc. Physic. Soc. 



5: 35-38; Phil. Mag. (5) 12: 212-214. 

 AccuM, F. 1799. On the light emitted by supersaturated borate of soda, or common 



borax. Nicholson's Jour. Nat. Philos. Chem. and Arts 2: 28. 

 AcHARD, F. 1785. Experiences sur le bois pourri luisant. Nouv. Mem. d. I'Acad. Roy. 



d. Sci. et Belles Lettres, Berlin, 1783: 98-106. 

 Adams, G. 1794. Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy, considered in its 



present state of improvement, Lee. XXI, Of phosphoric bodies, 428-453. London. 

 Adanson, M. 1757. Histoire naturelle du Senegal. Paris. Translated in 1759 as A 



voyage to Senegal during the years 1749-53, p. 176, 183. 

 Ad-Damiri. 1906, 1908. Hayat Al-Hayawan (A zoological collection) , trans, from 



Arabic by Lt. Col. A. S. G. Jayakar. 2 v. Bombay. 1: 504 on firefly. 

 Adler, C. F. 1752, 1756, 1757. Noctiluca marina. Quam sub Presidio D: N. Doct. 



Caroli Linnaei, Upsallae. In Caroli Linnaei. Amoenitates Academicae, 3: 202-210, 



Holmiae, 1756. Abstracted in Gentleman's Magazine 27: 208-209. 

 Aeliani, C. 1556. Opera. Tiguri (Gesneros fratres) . De animalium natura liborum 



XVII. 365 pp. Also 1616, Coloniae Allobrogum. 

 Afzelius, a. 1798. Observations on the Genus Pausus and description of a new species. 



Trans. Linnean Soc, London, 4: 243-261. 

 Agassiz, a. 1874. Embryology of the Ctenophorae. Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 



10, pt. 2, supp: 357-398. 

 Agassiz, L. 1850. On the structure of the halcyonoid polypi. Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. 



Sci. 3: 207-213. 

 Akin, C. K. 1865, 1867. On calcescence. Phil. Mag. (4) 29: 28-40; 136-151. See 



Ann. der Physik 130: 162-165; 131: 554-564. 

 Albertus Magnus. 1478. De animalibus libri XXVI. From the Coiner Urschrift by 



Hermann Stadler. Beitrdge zur Geschichte der Philosopliie des Mittelalters 



15, 892 pp., 1916-1921. 

 Albrecht, J. S. 1740. De ligno non putrido in tenebris lucente. Acta Physica Medica. 



Acad. Caesar-Leopol.-Car. Nat. Curios. Norimbergae, 5: 482-488. 



*A rather complete bibliography of bioluminescence, 1800-1950, will be found in 

 E. N. Harvey, Bioluminescence, New York, Academic Press, 1952. 



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