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Naturalists and Paleontologists: History of Science Collection

Image from Extinct Animals

Drawing of Glyptdon skeleton from E. Ray Lankester's Extinct Animals
Call number: QE761 .L3
Publication Date: 1905

Charles Darwin

The life and letters of Charles Darwin : including an autobiographical chapter
Call Number: QH31 .D2 A2 1888
3 volumes
The works of Charles Darwin
Call Number: QH365 .Z9B28 1986
ISBN: 9781851962013
29 volumes
Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle
Call Number: QH31.D2 A16 1945
Darwinism stated by Darwin himself. Characteristic passages from the writings of Charles Darwin
Call Number: QH365.Z9 S5 1884
Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world : under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin
Call Number: QH11 .D32 1845

James Hutton

James Hutton's Theory of the earth : the lost drawings
Call Number: QE25 .H82 1978
Publication Date: 1978
Explication de Playfair sur la theorie de la terre par Hutton
Call Number: QE28 .P51 1815
Translated: Playfair's Explanation of Theory of the Earth by Hutton, and Comparative Review of Geological Systems, by John Playfair
Theory of the earth, with proofs and illustrations
Call Number: QE651.H8
Publication Date: 1795-1899
In four parts

Edward Drinker Cope

The primary factors of organic evolution
Call Number: QH366 .C63 1896
The origin of the fittest; essays on evolution
Call Number: QH367 .C64 1887

Baron George Cuvier

Essay on the theory of the earth
Call Number: QE28 .C8 1813
The fossil remains of the animal kingdom
Call Number: QE761 .P52 1830
Spine title: The animal kingdom fossil remains
Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles : òu l'on rétablit les caractéres de plusieurs animaux dont les révolutions du globe ont détruit les espèces
Call Number: QE841 .C9 1821
Translated: Research on fossil bones: where we restore the characters of several animals whose revolutions of the globe have destroyed the species

Charles Lyell

Remarks on the antiquity and nature of man, in reply to the recent work of Sir Charles Lyell
Call Number: GN735.B785 1864
Geological evidences of the antiquity of man, with remarks on theories of the origin of species by variation
Call Number: GN735.L81 1863
In the History of Science Library
Manual of elementary geology : or, the ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments
Call Number: QE28 .L84 1855
5th edition
Principles of geology : being an inquiry how far the former changes of the earth's surface are referable to causes now in operation
Call Number: QE28 .L87 1835
4th edition; 4 volumes

Online Exhibitions - Prehistoric Life

Paper Dinosaurs 1824 - 1969
94 images from LHL's 1996 exhibition
The Grandeur of Life
An exhibition of the works in natural history that preceded Charles Darwin's publication of The Origin of Species

William Buckland

Reliquiæ diluvianæ; or Observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and on other geological phenomena, attesting the action of an universal deluge
Call Number: QE507 .B8 1824

Section of the cave of Biel's Höhle, Plate 16

H.E. Strickland

The dodo and its kindred : or The history, affinities, and osteology of the dodo, solitaire, and other extinct birds of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez and Bourbon
Call Number: QE872.C7 S77 1848

Plate V, Side view of the head of the dodo