READING LIST 



The books and articles relating to the history of biology are numerous. 

 Those designated below embrace some of the more readily accessible ones. 

 While some attention has been given to selecting the best sources, no 

 attempt has been made to give a comprehensive list. 



I. GENERAL REFERENCES 



Cuvier. Histoire des Sciences Naturelles. 5 vols., 1841-1845. Ex- 

 cellent. Written from examination of the original documents. 



Carus. Geschichte der Zoologie, 1872. Also Histoire de la Zoologie, 

 1880. A work of scholarship. Contains excellent account of the 

 Physiologus. 



Sachs. History of Botany, 1890. Excellent. Articles in the Botanical 

 Gazette for 1895 supplement his account by giving the more recent 

 development of botany. 



White. A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christen- 

 dom, 2 vols., 1900. Good account of Vesalius and the overthrow of 

 authority in science. 



Whewell. History of the Inductive Sciences, vol. II, 1863. Lacks 

 insight into the nature of biology and the steps in its progress. Men- 

 tioned because so generally known. 



Williams. A History of Science, 5 vols., 1904. Finely illustrated. Con- 

 tains many defects in the biological part as to the relative rank of the 

 founders: Vesalius diminished, Paracelsus magnified, etc. Also, the 

 Story of Nineteenth Century Science, 1900. Collected articles from 

 Harper's Magazine. Good portraits. Uncritical on biological matters. 



Thomson. The Science of Life, 1899. An excellent brief history of 

 biology. 



Foster. Lectures on the History of Physiology, 1901. Fascinatingly 

 written. Notable for poise and correct estimates, based on the 

 the original documents. 



Geddes. A Synthetic Outline of the History of Biology. Proc. Roy 

 Edinb., 1885- 1886. Good. 



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