Biology & Natural History

The naturalists’ classics — Darwin’s Origin, Voyage of the Beagle and Descent of Man, Fabre on insects, Maeterlinck on bees, Harvey on the circulation, Jenner on vaccination, Snow on cholera, alongside Huxley, Wallace, Pasteur and the great field guides. Each book a clean, beautifully formatted EPUB, free to download.

• A Text-Book of Horseshoeing A. Lungwitz
• American Forest Trees Henry H. Gibson
• An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman
• An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae Edward Jenner
• Anatomy of the Cat Jacob Reighard and H. S. Jennings
• Animal Behaviour C. Lloyd Morgan
• Animal Intelligence George John Romanes
• Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? W. P. Ball
• Aristotle’s History of Animals Aristotle
• Artistic Anatomy of Animals Édouard Cuyer
• At the Deathbed of Darwinism Eberhard Dennert
• Atlas de poche des mammifères de la France et de la Suisse René Martin
• Australian Insects Walter W. Froggatt
• Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley
• Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others James A. Henshall
• Birds of the Rockies Leander S. Keyser
• Birds Useful and Birds Harmful J. A. Owen and Ottó Herman
• Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage Walter B. Cannon
• Botany: The Science of Plant Life Norman Taylor
• British Birds W. H. Hudson and Frank E. Beddard
• Butterflies and Moths (British) William S. Furneaux
• Butterflies Worth Knowing Clarence Moores Weed
• Cattle and Their Diseases Robert Jennings
• Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter Charles Darwin
• Coral Reefs Charles Darwin
• Dactylography; Or, The Study of Finger-prints Henry Faulds
• Darwin Gamaliel Bradford
• Darwin and Modern Science A. C. Seward
• Darwinism Alfred Russel Wallace
• Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself Charles Darwin
• Delineations of the Ox Tribe George Vasey
• Domestic Animals Richard Lamb Allen
• Eleanor Ormerod, Economic Entomologist: Autobiography Eleanor A. Ormerod
• Elementary Zoology Vernon L. Kellogg
• Elements of Physiophilosophy Lorenz Oken
• Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany Douglas Houghton Campbell
• Essays of a Biologist Julian Huxley
• Everyday Objects W. H. Davenport Adams
• Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature Thomas Henry Huxley
• Extinct Monsters H. N. Hutchinson
• Fabre’s Book of Insects Jean-Henri Fabre
• Falling in Love, with Other Essays on Science Grant Allen
• Form and Function E. S. Russell
• Freedom in Science and Teaching Ernst Haeckel
• Fruits of the Hawaiian Islands Gerrit Parmile Wilder
• Fungi: Their Nature and Uses M. C. Cooke
• Glimpses of Ocean Life John Harper
• Handbook of the Trees of New England Henry M. Brooks and Lorin Low Dame
• Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
• Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution Agnes Robertson Arber
• Himalayan Journals Joseph Dalton Hooker
• Histoire des légumes Georges Gibault
• History of Botany (1530-1860) Julius Sachs
• Insect Architecture James Rennie
• Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin
• Insects and Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
• Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan and Afghanistan William Griffith
• Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee L. L. Langstroth
• Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley
• Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley
• Life of Elie Metchnikoff Olga Metchnikoff
• Man’s Place in Nature, and Other Essays Thomas Henry Huxley
• Man, Past and Present A. H. Keane
• More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre
• Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
• Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained M. Quinby
• New Zealand Moths and Butterflies G. V. Hudson
• Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk Sir Thomas Browne
• On the Genesis of Species St. George Jackson Mivart
• On the Mode of Communication of Cholera John Snow
• On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals William Harvey
• On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin
• On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Thomas Henry Huxley
• Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology H. L. Russell
• Parasites: A Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals T. Spencer Cobbold
• Reptiles and Birds Louis Figuier
• Science and Education: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley
• Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils Peter Gray and B. B. Woodward
• Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila Thomas Hunt Morgan and Calvin B. Bridges
• Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose: His Life and Speeches Jagadis Chandra Bose
• Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon Sir James Emerson Tennent
• Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life Catherine Cooper Hopley
• Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre
• Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries
• Spiders Cecil Warburton
• Student’s Hand-book of Mushrooms of America Thomas Taylor
• The Anatomy of the Domestic Fowl B. F. Kaupp
• The Ancient Life History of the Earth Henry Alleyne Nicholson
• The Animal Parasites of Man Harold Benjamin Fantham, J. W. W. Stephens, Fred. V. Theobald, and Max Braun
• The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin
• The Book of the Pearl George Frederick Kunz and Charles Hugh Stevenson
• The Butterfly Book W. J. Holland
• The Child’s Book of Nature Worthington Hooker
• The Dawn of Reason Jr. James Weir
• The Descent of Man Charles Darwin
• The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom Charles Darwin
• The Elements of Bacteriological Technique J. W. H. Eyre
• The Elements of Botany Asa Gray
• The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family Ch. Letourneau
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Charles Darwin
• The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley
• The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms Charles Darwin
• The Foundations of the Origin of Species Charles Darwin
• The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw
• The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre
• The History of the European Fauna R. F. Scharff
• The Insect World Louis Figuier
• The Ivory King Charles Frederick Holder
• The Life of Crustacea W. T. Calman
• The Life of Pasteur René Vallery-Radot
• The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck
• The Life of the Fly Jean-Henri Fabre
• The Life of the Grasshopper Jean-Henri Fabre
• The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre
• The Life-Story of Insects George H. Carpenter
• The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre
• The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines T. H. Pardo de Tavera
• The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals William T. Hornaday
• The Naturalist on the River Amazons Henry Walter Bates
• The Nursery-Book L. H. Bailey
• The Ocean World Louis Figuier
• The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions Carveth Read
• The Plants of Michigan Henry A. Gleason
• The Power of Movement in Plants Charles Darwin and Sir Francis Darwin
• The Principal Species of Wood Charles H. Snow
• The Prolongation of Life Elie Metchnikoff
• The Romance of Plant Life G. F. Scott Elliot
• The Sacred Beetle, and Others Jean-Henri Fabre
• The Sea Shore William S. Furneaux
• The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide Augusta Foote Arnold
• The Snakes of Europe George Albert Boulenger
• The Story of Evolution Joseph McCabe
• The Tower Menagerie Edward Turner Bennett
• The Universal Kinship J. Howard Moore
• The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Charles Darwin
• The Vertebrate Skeleton Sidney H. Reynolds
• The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin
• The Wonders of Instinct Jean-Henri Fabre
• The Wonders of Life Ernst Haeckel
• Thomas Henry Huxley: A Sketch of His Life and Work Sir P. Chalmers Mitchell
• Toadstools, Mushrooms, Fungi, Edible and Poisonous Charles McIlvaine and Robert K. Macadam
• Tobacco: Its History, Varieties, Culture and Manufacture E. R. Billings
• Travels in Peru and India Sir Clements R. Markham
• Trees of the Northern United States A. C. Apgar
• Unconscious Memory Samuel Butler
• Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-Therapeutics A. Calmette
• Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers
• What Is Darwinism? Charles Hodge
• Wild Flowers Neltje Blanchan
• Zoology: The Science of Animal Life Ernest Ingersoll