Chapter 4
A look beyond the texts
The samples in the nineteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences
Texts
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Description of the nineteenth-century life sciences texts
- 1804. Maria Elizabetha
Jacson
- Botanical Lectures. By a Lady (Pages 1–58,
10,051 words)
- 1808. Alexander
Wilson
- American Ornithology (Pages 20–52, 10,008
words)
- 1816. Priscilla
Wakefield
- An Introduction to the Natural History and Classification
of Insects (Pages 1–51, 10,008 words)
- 1819. Sir William
Lawrence
- Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History
of Man… (Pages 154–188, 10,000 words)
- 1824. Edward
Jenner
- Some Observations on the Migration of Birds
(Pages 12–44, 9,771 words)
- 1828. John Davidson
Godman
- American Natural History (Pages 37–88, 10,011
words)
- 1832. Almira Hart Lincoln
(Phelps)
- Familiar Lectures on Botany (Pages 278–305,
10,013 words)
- 1835. Sir William
Jardine
- The Naturalist’s Library (Pages 83–141, 10,007
words)
- 1840. Anne Pratt
- Flowers and their Associations (Pages 161–232,
10,021 words)
- 1848. Sir John Graham
Dalyell
- Rare and remarkable Animals of Scotland (Pages
138–166, 10,010 words)
- 1859. Elizabeth (Cabot
Cary) Agassiz
- A First Lesson in Natural History (Pages 7–66,
10,035 words)
- 1859. Charles Robert
Darwin
- On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection,
or the Preservation of favoured Races in the Struggle for
Life (Pages 422–454, 10,014 words)
- 1863. Thomas Henry
Huxley
- On the Origin of Species, or, the Causes of the Phenomena
of organic Nature. A Course of six Lectures to working
Men (Pages 80–113, 10,048 words)
- 1867. Herbert
Spencer
- The Principles of Biology (Pages 419–452, 10,001
words)
- 1876. Alexander
Macallister
- An Introduction to Animal Morphology and Systematic
Zoology (Pages 1–35, 10,023 words)
- 1879. Phebe
Lankester
- Wild Flowers worth Notice (Pages 66–117, 10,020
words)
- 1880. Francis Maitland
Balfour
- A Treatise on Comparative Embryology (Pages
44–67, 10,004 words)
- 1889. Sir Francis
Galton
- Natural Inheritance (Pages 4–49, 10,019
words)
- 1895. Emily Lovira
Gregory
- Elements of Plant Anatomy (Pages 85–118, 10,020
words)
- 1898. Alpheus Spring
Packard
- A Text–Book of Entomology… (Pages 1–35, 10,001
words)
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Notes
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