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Paleontology: History of Science Collection

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

Charles Darwin

The variation of animals and plants under domestication
Call Number: History of Science Collection - Cage QH365 .V2 1897
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.
Call Number: QH11 .D32 1845
The life and letters of Charles Darwin : including an autobiographical chapter
Call Number: QH31 .D2 A2 1888

3 volumes
Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle
Call Number: QH31.D2 A16 1945
The descent of man: and selection in relation to sex.
Call Number: QH365 .D2 1871 Rare Book Room
The works of Charles Darwin
Call Number: QH365 .Z9B28 1986

ISBN: 9781851962013

29 volumes
Darwinism stated by Darwin himself. Characteristic passages from the writings of Charles Darwin
Call Number: QH365.Z9 S5 1884

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

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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

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Tags: extinction, fossils, megafauna, natural history, paleontology