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.

• On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin
• The Elements of Bacteriological Technique J. W. H. Eyre
• Cattle and Their Diseases Robert Jennings
• Delineations of the Ox Tribe George Vasey
• The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines T. H. Pardo de Tavera
• Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained M. Quinby
• Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose: His Life and Speeches Jagadis Chandra Bose
• Insects and Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
• Birds of the Rockies Leander S. Keyser
• The Descent of Man Charles Darwin
• Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
• The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin
• An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Charles Darwin
• The Foundations of the Origin of Species Charles Darwin
• The Dawn of Reason Jr. James Weir
• Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology H. L. Russell
• Freedom in Science and Teaching Ernst Haeckel
• The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw
• The Animal Parasites of Man Harold Benjamin Fantham, J. W. W. Stephens, Fred. V. Theobald, and Max Braun
• Aristotle’s History of Animals Aristotle
• Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers
• At the Deathbed of Darwinism Eberhard Dennert
• Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? W. P. Ball
• The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre
• The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin
• Toadstools, Mushrooms, Fungi, Edible and Poisonous Charles McIlvaine and Robert K. Macadam
• Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature Thomas Henry Huxley
• Himalayan Journals Joseph Dalton Hooker
• The Book of the Pearl George Frederick Kunz and Charles Hugh Stevenson
• Fabre’s Book of Insects Jean-Henri Fabre
• Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
• The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide Augusta Foote Arnold
• American Forest Trees Henry H. Gibson
• The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre
• Butterflies and Moths (British) William S. Furneaux
• Lichens Annie Lorrain Smith
• Tobacco: Its History, Varieties, Culture and Manufacture E. R. Billings
• The Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre
• The Insect World Louis Figuier
• Darwin and Modern Science A. C. Seward
• Wild Flowers Neltje Blanchan
• Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life Catherine Cooper Hopley
• Birds Useful and Birds Harmful J. A. Owen and Ottó Herman
• Australian Insects Walter W. Froggatt
• Reptiles and Birds Louis Figuier
• Travels in Peru and India Sir Clements R. Markham
• Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon Sir James Emerson Tennent
• Man’s Place in Nature, and Other Essays Thomas Henry Huxley
• Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter Charles Darwin
• The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Charles Darwin
• The Anatomy of the Domestic Fowl B. F. Kaupp
• The Naturalist on the River Amazons Henry Walter Bates
• The Elements of Botany Asa Gray
• Man, Past and Present A. H. Keane
• The Vertebrate Skeleton Sidney H. Reynolds
• The Sacred Beetle, and Others Jean-Henri Fabre
• Parasites: A Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals T. Spencer Cobbold
• Artistic Anatomy of Animals Édouard Cuyer
• Form and Function E. S. Russell
• The Power of Movement in Plants Charles Darwin and Sir Francis Darwin
• Field and Woodland Plants W. S. Furneaux
• Botany: The Science of Plant Life Norman Taylor
• Fungi: Their Nature and Uses M. C. Cooke
• Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin
• Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others James A. Henshall
• Animal Behaviour C. Lloyd Morgan
• Darwinism Alfred Russel Wallace
• Elementary Zoology Vernon L. Kellogg
• The Life of the Fly Jean-Henri Fabre
• British Birds W. H. Hudson and Frank E. Beddard
• The Prolongation of Life Elie Metchnikoff
• Science from an Easy Chair E. Ray Lankester
• Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution Agnes Robertson Arber
• The Ocean World Louis Figuier
• Falling in Love, with Other Essays on Science Grant Allen
• The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck
• The Universal Kinship J. Howard Moore
• History of Botany (1530-1860) Julius Sachs
• Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre
• Fruits of the Hawaiian Islands Gerrit Parmile Wilder
• Student’s Hand-book of Mushrooms of America Thomas Taylor
• Trees of the Northern United States A. C. Apgar
• Botany for Ladies Jane Loudon
• Essays Upon Heredity August Weismann
• Elements of Physiophilosophy Lorenz Oken
• The Wonders of Instinct Jean-Henri Fabre
• The Sea Shore William S. Furneaux
• The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms Charles Darwin
• The Ancient Life History of the Earth Henry Alleyne Nicholson
• The Snakes of Europe George Albert Boulenger
• Glimpses of Ocean Life John Harper
• The Romance of Plant Life G. F. Scott Elliot
• The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals William T. Hornaday
• The Chain of Life in Geological Time John William Dawson
• The Life of the Grasshopper Jean-Henri Fabre
• The Insect Jules Michelet
• New Zealand Moths and Butterflies G. V. Hudson
• The Wonders of Life Ernst Haeckel
• Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore Charles Kingsley
• Everyday Objects W. H. Davenport Adams
• Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila Thomas Hunt Morgan and Calvin B. Bridges
• Zoology: The Science of Animal Life Ernest Ingersoll
• Anatomy of the Cat Jacob Reighard and H. S. Jennings
• Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan and Afghanistan William Griffith
• American Addresses Thomas Henry Huxley
• Domestic Animals Richard Lamb Allen
• The Life of the Caterpillar Jean-Henri Fabre
• Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-Therapeutics A. Calmette
• Extinct Monsters H. N. Hutchinson
• Dactylography; Or, The Study of Finger-prints Henry Faulds
• The Plants of Michigan Henry A. Gleason
• The Butterfly Book W. J. Holland
• The Life of Pasteur René Vallery-Radot
• The Ivory King Charles Frederick Holder
• Insect Architecture James Rennie
• Life of Elie Metchnikoff Olga Metchnikoff
• More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre
• The Principal Species of Wood Charles H. Snow
• Thomas Henry Huxley: A Sketch of His Life and Work Sir P. Chalmers Mitchell
• Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley
• Science and Education: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley
• Essays of a Biologist Julian Huxley
• Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself Charles Darwin
• The Whence and the Whither of Man John M. Tyler
• The Child’s Book of Nature Worthington Hooker
• Butterflies Worth Knowing Clarence Moores Weed
• Animal Intelligence George John Romanes
• The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions Carveth Read
• Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany Douglas Houghton Campbell
• Histoire des légumes Georges Gibault
• The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family Ch. Letourneau
• Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils Peter Gray and B. B. Woodward
• Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley
• A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere William Berryman Scott
• Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee L. L. Langstroth
• The Fantastic Clan John James Thornber
• Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries
• On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals William Harvey
• Anthropoid Apes Robert Hartmann
• Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage Walter B. Cannon
• The Life of the Scorpion Jean-Henri Fabre
• Darwin Gamaliel Bradford
• Luck, or Cunning? Samuel Butler
• The Life and Love of the Insect Jean-Henri Fabre
• Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley
• Handbook of the Trees of New England Henry M. Brooks and Lorin Low Dame
• An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae Edward Jenner
• Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk Sir Thomas Browne
• Dragons of the Air H. G. Seeley
• The Story of Evolution Joseph McCabe
• The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre
• Spiders Cecil Warburton
• The Tower Menagerie Edward Turner Bennett
• Natural Wonders Edwin Tenney Brewster
• The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley
• The Nursery-Book L. H. Bailey
• William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood Thomas Henry Huxley
• Coral Reefs Charles Darwin
• Atlas de poche des mammifères de la France et de la Suisse René Martin
• The Life of Crustacea W. T. Calman
• On the Mode of Communication of Cholera John Snow
• Studies in the Theory of Descent August Weismann
• The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song F. W. Mott
• The History of the European Fauna R. F. Scharff
• What Is Darwinism? Charles Hodge
• The Industries of Animals Frédéric Houssay
• Territory in Bird Life H. Eliot Howard
• The Physical Basis of Mind George Henry Lewes
• Animal Parasites and Messmates P. J. van Beneden
• Biology and Its Makers William A. Locy
• The Life-Story of Insects George H. Carpenter
• Canterbury Pieces Samuel Butler
• A Text-Book of Horseshoeing A. Lungwitz
• The Origin of Species: Huxley’s 1860 Review Thomas Henry Huxley
• On the Genesis of Species St. George Jackson Mivart
• On the Reception of the ‘Origin of Species’ Thomas Henry Huxley
• Pearls and Parasites A. E. Shipley
• On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge Thomas Henry Huxley
• Life and Death Albert Dastre
• The Life of the Weevil Jean-Henri Fabre
• Eleanor Ormerod, Economic Entomologist: Autobiography Eleanor A. Ormerod
• The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes Robert Mearns Yerkes
• Ducks and Geese Harry M. Lamon and Rob R. Slocum
• The Doctrine of Evolution Henry Edward Crampton
• The Romance of Insect Life Edmund Selous
• Living Lights Charles Frederick Holder
• The Bacillus of Long Life Loudon M. Douglas
• Our Common Insects A. S. Packard
• Insect Life Jean-Henri Fabre
• Unconscious Memory Samuel Butler
• The Birds of Jamaica Philip Henry Gosse
• The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species Charles Darwin
• The Dancing Mouse Robert M. Yerkes
• The Butterflies of the British Isles Richard South
• More Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre
• Seaside Studies in Natural History Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
• Harvey’s Views on the Use of the Circulation of the Blood John Green Curtis
• Physiological Economy in Nutrition Russell H. Chittenden
• Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Elizabeth Cary Agassiz
• New-England’s Rarities Discovered John Josselyn
• Essays upon Some Controverted Questions Thomas Henry Huxley
• Mendel’s Principles of Heredity: A Defence William Bateson
• The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom Charles Darwin
• The Life of an Insect Anonymous
• Animal Locomotion James Bell Pettigrew
• Lives of Eminent Zoologists William MacGillivray
• The Physiology of Digestion Andrew Combe
• The Courtship of Animals W. P. Pycraft
• Mental Evolution in Man George John Romanes
• Apes and Monkeys: Their Life and Language R. L. Garner
• The Breath of Life John Burroughs
• Problems of Genetics William Bateson
• The Minor Horrors of War A. E. Shipley
• Common Objects of the Microscope J. G. Wood
• Book of Monsters David Fairchild
• Experiments on Animals Stephen Paget
• On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Thomas Henry Huxley
• Travels on the Amazon Alfred Russel Wallace
• Animals of the Past Frederic A. Lucas
• The Origin of Vertebrates Walter Holbrook Gaskell
• The Honey-Bee William Hetherington Harris
• Criticisms on The Origin of Species Thomas Henry Huxley
• Domesticated Animals Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
• Disease in Plants H. Marshall Ward
• Memoir on the Dodo Richard Owen
• The Octopus Henry Lee
• Darwiniana Asa Gray
• Animal Life in Field and Garden Jean-Henri Fabre
• Links With the Past in the Plant World A. C. Seward
• The Winners in Life’s Race Arabella B. Buckley
• Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre
• On the Method of Zadig Thomas Henry Huxley
• Evolution and Adaptation Thomas Hunt Morgan
• Disease and Its Causes W. T. Councilman
• The History of a Mouthful of Bread Jean Macé
• Stories of the Universe: Animal Life B. Lindsay
• The Fauna of the Deep Sea Sydney J. Hickson
• Studies of Trees in Winter Annie Oakes Huntington
• The Wild Elephant James Emerson Tennent
• Intelligence in Plants and Animals Thomas G. Gentry
• Trees: A Woodland Notebook Sir Herbert Maxwell
• The Mason-Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre
• The Human Species Armand de Quatrefages
• The Foot-prints of the Creator Hugh Miller
• The Esculent Funguses of England David Badham
• Physiology: The Science of the Body Ernest G. Martin
• The Honey-Bee Edward Bevan
• The Pros and Cons of Vivisection Charles Richet
• Evolution Joseph LeConte
• The Making of Species Douglas Dewar and Frank Finn
• Greek Biology and Greek Medicine Charles Singer
• The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature Thomas Henry Huxley
• The Darwinian Hypothesis Thomas Henry Huxley
• The Story of Milk Johan D. Frederiksen
• Manual of the Apiary A. J. Cook
• Regeneration Thomas Hunt Morgan
• On Some Fossil Remains of Man Thomas Henry Huxley
• The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt
• Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Müller
• The Last Link Ernst Haeckel
• Mimicry in Butterflies R. C. Punnett
• The Story of Germ Life H. W. Conn
• Lectures on Evolution Thomas Henry Huxley
• The Personality of Plants Royal Dixon and Franklyn Fitch
• Our Summer Migrants James Edmund Harting
• The Natural History of the Tea-Tree John Coakley Lettsom
• Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation James Buckman
• Physiological Researches on Life and Death Xavier Bichat
• The Kingdom of Man E. Ray Lankester
• Initiative in Evolution Walter Kidd
• Mendelism Reginald Punnett
• The Biological Problem of To-day Oscar Hertwig
• Life Among the Butterflies Vance Randolph
• The Book of Love Paolo Mantegazza
• Scientific Essays and Lectures Charles Kingsley
• The Romance of the Animal World Edmund Selous
• Palm Trees of the Amazon Alfred Russel Wallace
• Variation and Distribution in the Malayan Papilionidae Alfred Russel Wallace
• The Life and Letters of George John Romanes Ethel Duncan Romanes
• The Mule Harvey Riley
• Mushroom Culture William Robinson
• Through a Pocket Lens Henry Scherren
• Hints Towards a Theory of Life Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Bird Studies with a Camera Frank M. Chapman
• History of Embalming Jean-Nicolas Gannal
• Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection Edward Bagnall Poulton
• The Italian Alp-Bee H. C. Hermann
• Birds in Flight W. P. Pycraft
• The English Moths and Butterflies Benjamin Wilkes
• A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites James Parsons
• Aromatics and the Soul Dan McKenzie
• A Critique of the Theory of Evolution Thomas Hunt Morgan
• The Human Foot and the Human Hand George Murray Humphry
• All About Ferrets and Rats Adolph Isaacsen
• On the Cattle Plague Honoré Bourguignon
• The Body at Work Alex Hill
• The Book of the Fly G. Hurlstone Hardy
• Rust, Smut, Mildew, and Mould M. C. Cooke
• Half Hours with the Lower Animals Charles Frederick Holder
• Pioneers of Evolution Edward Clodd
• Flowers of Mountain and Plain Edith S. Clements
• Marvels of Pond-Life Henry J. Slack
• Wasps, Social and Solitary George W. and Elizabeth G. Peckham
• The Structure and Habits of Spiders J. H. Emerton
• On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects John Lubbock
• The Migration of Birds T. A. Coward
• Was Man Created? Henry A. Mott