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In:“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
► pp. 71–94

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Chapter 4
A look beyond the texts

The samples in the nineteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

ORCiD logo with link | University of Vigo
ORCiD logo with link | University of A Coruña
Published online: 10 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.04lar
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Description of the nineteenth-century life sciences texts
    • 1804. Maria Elizabetha Jacson
      • Botanical Lectures. By a Lady (Pages 1–58, 10,051 words)
    • 1808. Alexander Wilson
      • American Ornithology (Pages 20–52, 10,008 words)
    • 1816. Priscilla Wakefield
      • An Introduction to the Natural History and Classification of Insects (Pages 1–51, 10,008 words)
    • 1819. Sir William Lawrence
      • Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man… (Pages 154–188, 10,000 words)
    • 1824. Edward Jenner
      • Some Observations on the Migration of Birds (Pages 12–44, 9,771 words)
    • 1828. John Davidson Godman
      • American Natural History (Pages 37–88, 10,011 words)
    • 1832. Almira Hart Lincoln (Phelps)
      • Familiar Lectures on Botany (Pages 278–305, 10,013 words)
    • 1835. Sir William Jardine
      • The Naturalist’s Library (Pages 83–141, 10,007 words)
    • 1840. Anne Pratt
      • Flowers and their Associations (Pages 161–232, 10,021 words)
    • 1848. Sir John Graham Dalyell
      • Rare and remarkable Animals of Scotland (Pages 138–166, 10,010 words)
    • 1859. Elizabeth (Cabot Cary) Agassiz
      • A First Lesson in Natural History (Pages 7–66, 10,035 words)
    • 1859. Charles Robert Darwin
      • On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (Pages 422–454, 10,014 words)
    • 1863. Thomas Henry Huxley
      • On the Origin of Species, or, the Causes of the Phenomena of organic Nature. A Course of six Lectures to working Men (Pages 80–113, 10,048 words)
    • 1867. Herbert Spencer
      • The Principles of Biology (Pages 419–452, 10,001 words)
    • 1876. Alexander Macallister
      • An Introduction to Animal Morphology and Systematic Zoology (Pages 1–35, 10,023 words)
    • 1879. Phebe Lankester
      • Wild Flowers worth Notice (Pages 66–117, 10,020 words)
    • 1880. Francis Maitland Balfour
      • A Treatise on Comparative Embryology (Pages 44–67, 10,004 words)
    • 1889. Sir Francis Galton
      • Natural Inheritance (Pages 4–49, 10,019 words)
    • 1895. Emily Lovira Gregory
      • Elements of Plant Anatomy (Pages 85–118, 10,020 words)
    • 1898. Alpheus Spring Packard
      • A Text–Book of Entomology… (Pages 1–35, 10,001 words)
  • Notes
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