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Surgeon General's Library. The Catalogue should be consulted 

 for its many biographical references to biologists. The Library is es- 

 pecially rich in historical documents, as old anatomies, physiologies, 

 zodlogies, etc. 



Evolution. The bibliography of Evolution is given below under the 

 chapters dealing with the evolution theory. 



II. SPECIAL REFERENCES 



CHAPTER I 



Ancient biological Science: Cams; Botany after 1530, Sachs. Aris- 

 totle: Cuvier, a panegyric; Lewes, Aristotle — A Chapter from the History 

 of Science, 1864, a critical study; Huxley, On some Mistakes Attributed 

 to Aristotle; Macgilivray; Aristotle's History of Animals translated in 

 Bohn's Classical Library, 1887. Pliny: ^Slagilivray; Thorndike, The 

 Place of Magic in the Intellectual History of Europe. 1905, chap. III. The 

 Renaissance: Symonds. Epochs in Biological History: Geddes (see 

 General List). 



CHAPTER II 



\'esalius: Roth, Andreas VesaHus Bruxellensis, the edition of 1892, 

 the standard source of knowledge of Vesalius and his times, contains bibli- 

 ography, references to his different portraits, the resurrection bone, etc., etc., 

 Foster (see General List), Lecture I, excellent; Richardson in Disciples of 

 yEsculapius, vol. I, contains pictures, his signature, etc.; Pettigrcw; White, 

 vol. II, pp. 51-55; The Practitioner, 1896, vol. 56; The Asclepiad, 1885, 

 vol. II; De Humani Corporis Fabrica, editions of 1543 and 1555, Opera 

 Omnia, edited by Boerhaave, 2 vols., 1725. G.a.len: Pettigrew; Huxley in 

 his essay on William Harvey. 



CHAPTER III 



H.\rvey: Foster, Lecture II, with cjuotations, excellent; Dalton, History 

 of the Circulation; Huxley, William Harvey, a critical essay, Harvey's 

 Works translated by Willis, with biography, Sydenham Society, 1S47; Life 



