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1. Plantae Wilsonianae: an enumeration of the woody plants collected in western China for the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University during the years 1907, 1908, and 1910 by E. H. Wilson

Creator/Contributor:
Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927, creator
Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930
Arnold Arboretum
Creation Date:
1913-1917
Subjects:
Woody plants--China
Trees--China

2. A traveller's notes, or, Notes of a tour through India, Malaysia, Japan, Corea, the Australian colonies and New Zealand during the years 1891-1893: Traveller's notes: Notes of a tour through India, Malaysia, Japan, Corea, the Australian colonies and New Zealand during the years 1891-1893

Creator/Contributor:
Veitch, James H., creator
Creation Date:
1896
Subjects:
Botanical gardens

3. Scientific papers of Asa Gray

Creator/Contributor:
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888, creator
Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927, compiler.
Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927, editor.
Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (U.S.), former owner.
Creation Date:
1889
Subjects:
Gray, Asa
Botanists--Biography
Botany--History--19th century
Botany
Botany--Book reviews

4. The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, during the years 1849-'50-'51-'52: United States Naval Astronomical Expedition to the southern hemisphere, during the years 1849-'50-'51-'52

Creator/Contributor:
United States Naval Astronomical Expedition (1849-1852), creator
Gilliss, J. M. (James Melville), 1811-1865
MacRae, Archibald, 1820-1855
Creation Date:
1855-1856
Subjects:
United States Naval Astronomical Expedition (1849-1852)
Scientific expeditions--Southern Hemisphere
Scientific expeditions--South America
Scientific expeditions
Southern Hemisphere--Description and travel
South America--Description and travel

5. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon, Vol. 1: Valley of the Amazon, Vol. 1: made under the direction of the Navy Department

Creator/Contributor:
Herndon, William Lewis, 1813-1857, creator
Gibbon, Lardner.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886, former owner.
Dickinson, Austin, 1829-1895, former owner.
Armstrong, Robert, 1792-1854, printer.
Nicholson, A. O. P. (Alfred Osborn Pope), 1808-1876, printer.
Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
United States, Navy Department.
United States, Navy Department,, sponsoring body.
Creation Date:
1854
Subjects:
Amazon River Valley--Discovery and exploration--American
South America--Discovery and exploration
Amazon River Valley--Description and travel
Brazil--Description and travel
Peru--Description and travel
Bolivia--Description and travel
Expeditions--history

6. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon, Vol. 2: Valley of the Amazon, Vol. 2: made under the direction of the Navy Department

Creator/Contributor:
Herndon, William Lewis, 1813-1857, creator
Gibbon, Lardner.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886, former owner.
Dickinson, Austin, 1829-1895, former owner.
Armstrong, Robert, 1792-1854, printer.
Nicholson, A. O. P. (Alfred Osborn Pope), 1808-1876, printer.
Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
United States, Navy Department.
United States, Navy Department,, sponsoring body.
Creation Date:
1854
Subjects:
Amazon River Valley--Discovery and exploration--American
South America--Discovery and exploration
Amazon River Valley--Description and travel
Brazil--Description and travel
Peru--Description and travel
Bolivia--Description and travel
Expeditions--history

7. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon: Valley of the Amazon: made under the direction of the Navy Department

Creator/Contributor:
Herndon, William Lewis, 1813-1857, creator
Gibbon, Lardner.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886, former owner.
Dickinson, Austin, 1829-1895, former owner.
Armstrong, Robert, 1792-1854, printer.
Nicholson, A. O. P. (Alfred Osborn Pope), 1808-1876, printer.
Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
United States, Navy Department.
United States, Navy Department,, sponsoring body.
Creation Date:
1854
Subjects:
Amazon River Valley--Discovery and exploration--American
South America--Discovery and exploration
Amazon River Valley--Description and travel
Brazil--Description and travel
Peru--Description and travel
Bolivia--Description and travel
Expeditions--history

8. A voyage of discovery and research in the southern and Antarctic regions, during the years 1839-43: Discovery and research in the southern and Antarctic regions

Creator/Contributor:
Ross, James Clark, Sir, 1800-1862, creator
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
Enderby, Charles, 1798?-1876, former owner.
Creation Date:
1847
Subjects:
Erebus (Ship)
Terror (Ship)
Scientific expeditions--Antarctica
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration
1839--1843

9. Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, during the years 1843-46: Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang: employed surveying the islands of the Eastern archipelago : accompanied by a brief vocabulary of the principal languages

Creator/Contributor:
Belcher, Edward, Sir, 1799-1877, creator
Great Britain, Admiralty.
Creation Date:
1848
Subjects:
Samarang (Ship : 1843-1846)
Natural history--Malay Archipelago
Scientific expeditions--Malay Archipelago
English language--Dictionaries--Polyglot
Malay Archipelago--Description and travel
Malay Archipelago--Languages
Travel
Ships
Language
Natural History
Indonesia

10. Reise in Brasilien auf befehl Sr. Majestät Maximilian Joseph I., königs von Baiern: in den jahren 1817 bis 1820 gemacht und beschrieben

Creator/Contributor:
Spix, Johann Baptist von, 1781-1826, creator
Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von, 1794-1868
Creation Date:
1823-1831
Subjects:
Mines and mineral resources--Brazil
Indians of South America--Brazil
Brazil--Description and travel

11. Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger": being an account of various observations made during the voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" round the world, in the years 1872-1876, under the commands of Capt. Sir G.S. Nares, R.N., K.C.B., F.R.S., and Capt. F.T. Thomson, R.N

Creator/Contributor:
Moseley, H. N. (Henry Nottidge), 1844-1891, creator
Macmillan & Co, publisher.
Challenger Expedition (1872-1876)
Creation Date:
1879
Subjects:
Challenger (Ship : 1872-1876)
Challenger Expedition (1872-1876)
Natural history
Voyages around the world--19th century
Natural History

12. The natural history of Aleppo: containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood : together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases, particularly of the plague

Creator/Contributor:
Russell, Alexander, 1715?-1768, creator
Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770, dln
Russell, Patrick, 1727-1805
Creation Date:
1794
Subjects:
Epidemiology--Early works to 1800
Ethnology--Syria--Early works to 1800
Medicine, Arab
Natural history--Syria--Aleppo--Early works to 1800
Plague--Early works to 1800
Plague--Syria--Early works to 1800
Natural history--Syria--Aleppo--Pre-Linnean works
Aleppo (Syria)
Aleppo (Syria)--Early works to 1800
Natural History
History, 18th Century
Plague
Epidemiology
Anthropology, Cultural
Medicine, Arabic
Plague--epidemiology
Syria

13. Travels in China: containing descriptions, observations, and comparisons, made and collected in the course of a short residence at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a subsequent journey through the country from Pekin to Canton : in which it is attempted to appreciate the rank that this extraordinary empire may be considered to hold in the scale of civilized nations

Creator/Contributor:
Barrow, John, Sir, 1764-1848, creator
Creation Date:
1804
Subjects:
China--Description and travel

14. A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro: with an account of the native tribes, and observations on the climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon valley

Creator/Contributor:
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913, creator
Creation Date:
1853
Subjects:
Indians of South America--Brazil
Natural history--Amazon River Valley
Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley
Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley--Languages
Amazon River Valley--Description and travel
Brazil--Description and travel
Amazon River Valley
Indians, South American
Travel
Travel--Brazil--19th Cent
Brazil

15. Three voyages of a naturalist: being an account of many little- known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla," R.Y.S

Creator/Contributor:
Nicoll, M. J. (Michael John), 1880-1925, creator
Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
Creation Date:
1908
Subjects:
Valhalla (Yacht)
Scientific expeditions
Voyages and travels
Voyages around the world
Birds
Voyages
West Indies--Discovery and exploration
Expeditions

16. Travels and researches in western China: Travels and researches in the interior of China

Creator/Contributor:
Baber, Edward Colborne, 1843-1890, creator
Creation Date:
1882
Subjects:
China--Description and travel

17. Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., K.B., P.R.S: Journal of Sir Joseph Banks: during Captain Cook's first voyage in H.M.S. Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, etc

Creator/Contributor:
Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820, creator
Hooker, Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911
Creation Date:
1896
Subjects:
Banks, Joseph--Diaries
Endeavour (Ship)
Voyages around the world
Natural history--Oceania
Voyages around the world--Early works to 1800
Oceania--Discovery and exploration
Indonesia--Discovery and exploration
Southern Cone of South America--Discovery and exploration
Australia--Discovery and exploration
New Zealand--Discovery and exploration
Oceania--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800
Natural History

18. Narrative of a voyage round the world: performed in Her Majesty's ship Sulphur, during the years 1836-1842, including details of the naval operations in China, from Dec. 1840, to Nov. 1841

Creator/Contributor:
Belcher, Edward, Sir, 1799-1877, creator
Hinds, Richard Brinsley.
Great Britain, Admiralty.
Creation Date:
1843
Subjects:
Sulphur (Ship)
Voyages around the world
Phytogeography
China--History--Opium War, 1840-1842

19. Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China: being the journal of a naturalist in those countries during 1832, 1833, and 1834

Creator/Contributor:
Bennett, George, 1804-1893, creator
Creation Date:
1834
Subjects:
Bennett, George--Travel--Australia--New South Wales
Bennett, George--Travel--Asia
Natural history--Australia--New South Wales
New South Wales--Description and travel
Natural History

20. A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: in which the coast of Asia, from the lat. of 35⁰ north to the lat. of 52⁰ north, the island of the Insu (commonly known under the name of the land of Jesso,) the north, south, and east coasts of Japan, the Lieuchieux and the adjacent isles, as well as the coast of Corea, have been examined and surveyed : performed in His Majesty's sloop Providence and her tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798

Creator/Contributor:
Broughton, William Robert, 1762-1821, creator
Neele, Samuel John, 1758-1824, engraver.
Creation Date:
1804
Subjects:
Providence (Sloop : Great Britain)
Scientific expeditions
Japan--Description and travel
Ryukyu Islands--Description and travel
Korea--Description and travel

21. Journal of a botanical excursion in the northeastern parts of the states of Pennsylvania and New York during the year 1807

Creator/Contributor:
Pursh, Frederick, 1774-1820, creator
Creation Date:
1869
Subjects:
Pursh, Frederick
Botany--New York (State)
Botany--Pennsylvania

22. Travels in Ceylon and continental India: including Nepal and other parts of the Himalayas, to the borders of Thibet, with some notices of the overland route : Appendices, I. Addressed to Baron von Humboldt, on the geographical distribution of coniferæ on the Himalayan Mountains, II. On the vegetation of the Himalayan Mountains, III. The birds of the Himalayan Mountains

Creator/Contributor:
Hoffmeister, Werner, 1819-1845, creator
Creation Date:
1848
Subjects:
Natural history--Himalaya Mountains
Himalaya Mountains--Description and travel
India--Description and travel
Sri Lanka--Description and travel
Natural History

23. Aus Namaland und Kalahari: Bericht an die Kgl. preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin über eine Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika, ausgeführt in den jahren 1903-1905

Creator/Contributor:
Schultze Jena, Leonhard, 1872-1955, creator
Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin
Creation Date:
1907
Subjects:
Ethnology--South Africa
Namaqualand (South Africa)
Kalahari Desert

24. Brazil: the Amazons and the coast

Creator/Contributor:
Smith, Herbert H. (Herbert Huntington), 1851-1919, creator
Champney, James Wells, 1843-1903
Creation Date:
1879
Subjects:
Folklore--Brazil
Brazil--Description and travel
Brazil--Economic conditions
Amazon River Valley--Description and travel
Folklore
Economics
Geography

25. Lahore to Yārkand: incidents of the route and natural history of the countries traversed by the expedition of 1870, under T. D. Forsyth

Creator/Contributor:
Henderson, George, M.D, creator
Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912
Forsyth, Thomas Douglas, Sir, 1827-1886
Creation Date:
1873
Subjects:
Scientific expeditions
Natural history--India
Natural history--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
India--Description and travel
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Description and travel
Expeditions
Natural History

26. The polar regions

Creator/Contributor:
Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865, creator
Tower, Joseph Tuckerman, 1897-1931, former owner.
Adam and Charles Black (Firm), publisher.
Creation Date:
1861
Subjects:
Arctic peoples
Ethnology--Antarctica
Ethnology--Russia--Siberia, Northeastern
Polar regions

27. Les Andes de Patagonie

Creator/Contributor:
Gallois, L. (Lucien), 1857-1941, creator
Creation Date:
[1901]
1901
Subjects:
Andes--Description and travel
Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--Description and travel
Andes

28. Die zweite Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt in den Jahren 1869 und 1870 unter Führung des Kapitän Karl Koldeway

Creator/Contributor:
Koldewey, Karl, 1837-1908
Hartlaub, G. (Gustav), 1814-1900
Lindeman, Moritz (Moritz Karl Adolf), 1823-1908
Hartlaub, G., editor.
Lindeman, Moritz Karl Adolf, 1823-1908, editor.
Verein für die Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt in Bremen
Deutsche Nordpolar-Expedition (2nd : 1869-1870)
Creation Date:
1873-1874
Subjects:
Deutsche Nordpolar-Expedition (2nd : 1869-1870)
Natural history--Arctic regions
Arctic regions
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--German

29. Geographic travels in central Australia from 1872 to 1874

Creator/Contributor:
Giles, Ernest, -1897, creator
Creation Date:
1875
Subjects:
Mueller, Ferdinand von
Plants--Australia
Botany--Australia
Australia--Discovery and exploration

30. A voyage to Terra Australis: undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner : with an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island

Creator/Contributor:
Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814, creator
Brown, Robert, 1773-1858
Westall, William, 1781-1850
Pye, John, 1745-
Finden, W. (William), 1787-1852
Scott, John, 1774-1827
Creation Date:
1814
Subjects:
Flinders, Matthew
Cumberland (Ship)
Investigator (Ship)
Porpoise (Ship)
Voyages and travels
Australia--Discovery and exploration--British
Expeditions--history

31. Himalayan journals: notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c

Creator/Contributor:
Hooker, Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911, creator
Creation Date:
1855
Subjects:
Natural history--Himalaya Mountains
Himalaya Mountains--Description and travel
Natural History

32. Aspects of nature in different lands and different climates: Humboldt's aspects: with scientific elucidations

Creator/Contributor:
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859, creator
Sabine, Mrs. Elizabeth Juliana Leeves, 1807-1879
Sabine, Mrs. Elizabeth Juliana Leeves, 1807-1879, translator.
Creation Date:
1849
Subjects:
Science
Plant morphology
Physical geography
South America--Description and travel
Botany

33. Coral and atolls: their history, description, theories of their origin both before and since that of Darwin, the influence of winds, tides and ocean currents on their formation and transformations, their present condition, products, fauna and flora

Creator/Contributor:
Jones, F. Wood (Frederic Wood), 1879-1954, creator
Creation Date:
1910
Subjects:
Coral reefs and islands--Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Cocos (Keeling) Islands

34. Voyage de M. Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique: Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique: par la Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 et 85

Creator/Contributor:
Le Vaillant, François, 1753-1824, creator
Creation Date:
1790
Subjects:
Le Vaillant, François--Travel
Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
Africa--Description and travel--Early works to 1800

35. Report by Consul-General Hosie on the province of Ssŭhʻuan: Report ... on the province of Ssŭch'uan: with two maps

Creator/Contributor:
Hosie, Alexander, Sir, 1853-1925, creator
Great Britain, Parliament.
Creation Date:
[1904]
1904
Subjects:
Sichuan Sheng (China)

36. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by William H. Emory

Creator/Contributor:
United States, Department of the Interior., creator
Parry, C. C. (Charles Christopher), 1823-1890
Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Conrad, T. A. (Timothy Abbott), 1803-1877
Engelmann, George, 1809-1884
Hall, James, 1811-1898
Schott, Arthur, 1814-1875
Torrey, John, 1796-1873
Girard, Charles, 1822-1895
United States and Mexican Boundary Survey
Creation Date:
1857-1859
Subjects:
United States and Mexican Boundary Survey.
Geology--Southwest, New
Botany--Southwest, New
Zoology--Southwest, New
Discoveries in geography--United States
United States--Boundaries--Mexico
Mexico--Boundaries--United States
Rio Grande (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)

37. Chronological history of plants: man's record of his own existence illustrated through their names, uses, and companionship

Creator/Contributor:
Pickering, Charles, 1805-1878, creator
Creation Date:
1879
Subjects:
Botany--History
Plants, Cultivated
Civilization--history
Plants

38. Voyage autour du monde: entrepris par ordre du gouvernement sur la corvette la Coquille

Creator/Contributor:
Lesson, R. P. (René Primevère), 1794-1849, creator
Creation Date:
1839
Subjects:
Coquille (Corvette)
Voyages around the world
Scientific expeditions

39. Expedición botánica de José Celestino Mutis al Nuevo Reino de Granada y Memorias inéditas de Francisco José de Caldas: Expedición botánica al Nuevo Reino de Granada

Creator/Contributor:
Mendoza Pérez, Diego., creator
Mutis, José Celestino, 1732-1808
Caldas, Francisco José de, 1768-1816
Creation Date:
1909
Subjects:
Mutis, José Celestino
Caldas, Francisco José de
Botany--Colombia
Botany
Expeditions--history

40. Journal of an expedition into the interior of tropical Australia in search of a route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria: Tropical Australia

Creator/Contributor:
Mitchell, T. L. (Thomas Livingstone), 1792-1855, creator
Creation Date:
1848
Subjects:
Plants--Australia
Australia--Discovery and exploration
Expeditions
Botany

41. Reisen in Tibet und am oberen Lauf des Gelben Flusses in den Jahren 1879 bis 1880

Creator/Contributor:
Przhevalʹskiĭ, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1839-1888, creator
Schneer, Elise von Stein-Nordheim, 1848-
Creation Date:
1884
Subjects:
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Description and travel
Asia, Central--Description and travel

42. Atlas of Japanese vegetation: 日本植物景觀: Nihon shokubutsu keikan: phototype reproductions of photographs of wild and cultivated plants as well as the plant-landscapes of Japan, with explanatory text: 附解說: tsuketari kaisetsu

Creator/Contributor:
Miyoshi, Manabu, 1862-1939
Creation Date:
1905-1914
1905-1914.
Subjects:
Plants--Japan
Plants--Japan--Pictorial works
Phytogeography--Japan

43. Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3. Observations on the zodiacal light: United States Japan expedition, Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3. Observations on the zodiacal light: performed in the years 1852, 1853 and 1854, under the command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the government of the United States

Creator/Contributor:
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858, creator
Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866
Jones, George, 1800-1870
Nicholson, A. O. P. (Alfred Osborn Pope), 1808-1876, printer.
United States, Navy Department.
United States, Congress, (33rd : 1853-1855)
Creation Date:
1856[-1857]
1856
Subjects:
Perry, Matthew Calbraith
United States.
United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Zodiacal light
Japan--Description and travel
United States--Foreign relations--Japan
Japan--Foreign relations--United States
Expeditions--Japan
Geography--Japan
Japan
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