Chapter 4. A look beyond the texts : The samples in the nineteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

Agassiz, Elizabeth

1859 A First Lesson in Natural History. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. London: Sampson Low, Son and Company.

Aikin, John

1809 “Biographical account of the late Mr. Joseph Johnson”. The Gentleman’s Magazine, LXXXIX: 1167–68.

Balfour, Francis Maitland

1880 A Treatise on comparative Embryology. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. London: Macmillan &Co.

Brake, Laurel and Demoor, Marysa

2009 Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Gent: Academia Press.

Briggs, Asa

2008 A history of Longmans and their books 1724–1990. Longevity in Publishing. London: British Library Publishing Division.

Burkhart, Frederick et al.

(eds.) 2010 The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. 18. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Carpenter, Humphrey

2009 The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty, 1768–2002. London: John Murray.

Dalyell, Sir John Graham

1848 Rare and remarkable Animals of Scotland, represented from living Subjects: with practical Observations on their Nature. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. London: John van Voorst.

Darwin, Charles Robert

1859 On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray.

Dewey, John

1889 “Galton’s Statistical Methods”. American Statistical Association, 331–334.

Encyclopaedia Britannica. Digital version

Retrieved January 16, 2020, from https://www.britannica.com/topic/publishing/The-19th-century-and-the-start-of-mass-circulation#ref398335

Freylinghausen, Johann A.

1804 An abstract of the whole Doctrine of the Christian Religion. London: Edward Harding. Printed by A. Wilson.

Galton, Sir Francis

1889 Natural Inheritance. London/New York: Macmillan &Co.

Gassan, Richard H.

2014 Carey & Lea, Printer and Publisher – Seasonal Variations in its Business Cycle 1833–1836. Retrieved June 21, 2014, from http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/1801-1900/carey-lea-printer-and-publisher/publishers-of-philadelphia.php

Godman, John Davidson

1828 American Natural History. In Three Volumes. Vol. III. Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Carey.

1836 American Natural History. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Philadelphia: Hogan & Thompson.

Gregory, Emily Lovira

1895 Elements of Plant Anatomy. Boston/London: published by Ginn and Company.

Hayes, Kevin J. and Bour, Isabelle

(eds.) 2011 ‪Franklin in His Own Time‬: ‪A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates. Iowa: University of Iowa Press.

Huxley, Thomas Henry

1863 On the Origin of Species: Or, The Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature. A Course of Six Lectures to Working Men. New York: D. Appleton and Company.

Jacson, Maria Elizabetha

1804 Botanical Lectures. By a Lady. Altered from “Botanical Dialogues for the use of schools”, and adapted to the use of persons of all ages, by the same author. London: printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley.

James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson and Boyer, Paul S.

(eds.) 1971 Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1. Harvard: Harvard University Press.

James, Elizabeth

(ed.) 2002 Macmillan a publishing tradition. London: Palgrave.

Jardine, Sir William

1835 The Naturalist’s Library. In Forty Volumes. Mammalia Vol. III. Ruminantia. Part I. The Natural History of the Ruminating Animals containing Deer, Antelopes, Camels, &c. Illustrated by thirty-five Plates; with memoir and portrait of Camper. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizards, London: Samuel Highley, Dublin: W. Curry.

Jenner, Edward

1824 “Some Observations on the Migration of Birds. By the late Edward Jenner, M.D. F.R.S.; with an Introductory Letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. Pres. R.S. By the Rev. G. C. Jenner”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.

Lankester, Phebe

1879 Wild Flowers worth Notice: A Selection of some of our Native Plants which are most attractive from their Beauty, Uses, or Associations. London: David Bogue.

Lareo, Inés; Monaco, Leida Maria; Esteve-Ramos, María José and Moskowich, Isabel

(comps.) 2020 The Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST). A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña.

Lawrence, William

1819 Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons. London: printed for J. Callow, medical bookseller.

Lincoln, Almira Hart

1832 Familiar Lectures on Botany, including practical and elementary Botany, with generic and specific Descriptions of the most common native and foreign Plants and a Vocabulary of botanical Terms. For the use of Higher schools and academies. Hartford: F. J. Huntington.

Macallister, Alexander

1876 An Introduction to Animal Morphology and Systematic Zoology. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

McKitterick, David

2009 Changes in the look of the book. In McKitterick, David (ed.). The Cambridge History of the book in Britain. 1830–1914. Vol. 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 75–116.

Oakes, Elizabeth H.

2007 Encyclopedia of World Scientists. New York: Infobase Publishing.

ODNB. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Retrieved June 12, 2014, from http://www.oxforddnb.com

Packard, Alpheus Spring Packard

1898 A Text–Book of Entomology including the Anatomy, Physiology, Embryology and Metamorphosis of Insects. For Use in agricultural and technical Schools and Colleges as well as by the working Entomologist. New York/London: Macmillan &Co.

Patterson, Daniel; Thompson, Roger and Bryson, Scott J.

(eds) 2008 Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Paton, Lucy Allen

1919 Elizabeth Cary Agassiz: A Biography. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Plomer, Henry R.

1900 A short history of English printing. 1476–1898. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and company, limited.

Pratt, Anne

1840 Flowers and their Associations. London: Charles Knight and Co.

Remer, Rosalind

1996 Printers and men of capital. Philadelphia book publishers in the new republic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Rines, George Edwin

(ed.) 1920 Appleton, Daniel. Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. II. Danbury: Grolier, Inc.

Sauer, Anne; Branco, Jessica; Bennet, John and Crowley, Zachary

(eds.) 2000 Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History. Digital Collection.

Sheets-Pyenson, Susan

1981 “War and Peace in Natural History Publishing: the Naturalist’s Library, 1833–1843”. Isis, 72/1: 50–72. Retrieved January 4, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/231177

Spencer, Herbert

1864 The Principles of Biology. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. London/Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate.

1867 The Principles of Biology. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. London/Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate.

Tyson, Gerad P.

1975 “Joseph Johnson, an Eighteenth-century Bookseller”. Studies in Bibliography, 28: 1–16.

Urban, Mr. B. S. G. S.

1845 “John Callow the medical bookseller”. The Gentleman’s Magazine, XXIII: 29–32.

Wakefield, Priscilla

1816 An Introduction to the Natural History and Classification of Insects. In a Series of familiar Letters. With illustrative Engravings. London: printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton.

Wheeler, William Morton

1898 “Review: A Text-book of Entomology, including the Anatomy, Physiology, Embryology and Metamorphoses of Insects by A. S. Packard”. Science 17, 7/181: 836–837.

Wilbeforce, Samuel

1860 “Review of On the origin of species”. Quaterly Review, 108: 225–264.

Wilson, Alexander

1808 American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Illustrated with plates and colored from the original drawings taken from Nature. In Nine Volumes. Vol. I. Philadelphia: published by Bradford and Inskeep and printed by Robert Carr.

Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske

(eds.) 1900 Appleton’s cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. 1 (revised edition). New York: D. Appleton and Co.

A look beyond the texts

The samples in the nineteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

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