Evolution created 9/18/2008

This CD, with 155 books, focuses on Evolution, including Forerunners of Evolution, Creationism (Opponents of Evolution), and Broad Applications of Evolution (including Social Darwinism and Eugenics).

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Table of Contents

Forerunners of Evolution

Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)

• Species Plantarum, Sectiosn I-III [in Latin]

William Osmer

• A Dissertation on Horses, 1756

Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789)

• The System of Nature
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1854)

• Equinoctial Regions of America
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)

• Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution, His Life and Work by Alpheus s. Packard

Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin) (1731-1802)

• The Botanic Garden (poem) 1788
• part 1
• part 2
• Zoonommia or the Laws of Organic Life, volume 1

Anonymous

• An Expository Outline of the Vestiges of Natural History of Creation,  1845
• A Theory of Creation, a Review of "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" from the North American Review for April 1845

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Evolution

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

• Coral Reefs
• The Descent of Man
• The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
• Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom
• Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals
• The Formation of Vegetable Mould
• Foundations of the Origin of Species, Two Essays Written in 1842 and 1844
• Insectivorous Plants
• Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants
• On the Origin of Species (first edition)
• On the Origin of Species (second edition)
• The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (sixth edition)
• The Power of Movement in Plants
• South American Geology
• Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volcanic Islands
• Voyage of the Beagle
• About Darwin and The Beagle
• The Autobiography of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Darwin and Modern Science by A.C. Seward
• Discoveries in Australia with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed during the Voluage of the H.M.S. Beagle in the Years 1837-1843 by J. Lort Stokes
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Muller, translated by W.S. Dallas
• Life and Letters of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• More Letters of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 by Augustus Eaerle, Draghtsman to His Majesty's Surveying Ship The Beagle

Alfred Wallace (1823-1913)

• The Malay Archipelago
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Is Mars Habitable?
• Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection
• Darwinism, an Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection and Some of Its Applications, 1889
• Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences, volume 2  by James Marchant

Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)

• American Addresses wtih a Lecture on the Study of Biology, 1877
• Autobiography and Selected Essays
• The Circulation of the Blood
• The Conditions of Existence Affecting the Perpetuation of Living Beings
• Coral and Coral Reefs
• A Critical Examination of "On the Origin of Species"
• Criticisms on "The Origin of Species"
• Critiques and Addresses
• The Darwinian Hypothesis
• Darwiniana, Volume 2
• Discourses: Biological and Geological Essays
• Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
• Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays
• Geologic Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life
• Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews, 1870
• Lectures and Essays
• Life and Letters of Thomas H. Huxley by Leonard Huxley
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge
• On the Brain
• On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
• On Some Fossil Remains of Man
• On the Study of Zoology
• The Origin of Species
• The Origination of Living Beings
• The Past Condition of Organic Nature
• The Perpetuation of Living Beings
• The Present Condition of Organic Nature
• Science and Education
• Science and the Christian Tradition (Collected Essays volume 5)
• Science and the Hebrew Tradition (book)
• Essay 1, the Method of Zadig
• Essay 2, the Rise and Progress of Palaeontology
• Essay 3, Lectures on Evolution
• Essay 4, Interpreters of Genesis and Interpreters of Nature
• Essay 5, Mr. Gladstone and Genesis
• Essay 6, the Lights of the Church and the Light of Science
• Essay 7, Hasisdra's Adventure
• Essay 8, the Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study
• Thomas Henry Huxley, a Sketch of His Life and Work by P. Chalmers Mitchell, 1900
• Time and Life: Mr. Darwin's Origin of Species
• Yeast

Jean Henri Fabre (1825-1895)

• Bramble Bees and Others translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• The Life of the Fly translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• The Life of the Spider
• The Mason Bees translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• More Hunting Wasps translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• Souvenirs Entomologiques, book 1 [in French]
• The Wonders of Instinct
• About Fabre
• Fabre, Poet of Science by G. -V. Legros, translated by Bernard Miall

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1913)

• Evolution in Modern Thought by Haeckel, Thomson, Weismann and Others
• The Evolution of Man, a Popular Scientific Study
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Charles Lyell (1797-1875)

• The Antiquity of Man

E.H. Aitken

• Concerning Animals and Other Matters

Henry Bates

• The Naturalist on the River Amazon

Thomas Bett

• The Naturalist in Nicaragua

Douglas Houghton Cambpell

• Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany for High Schools and Elementary College Courses, 1890

H.W. Conn

• The Story of the Living Machine, a Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity

Henry Edward Crampton

• The Doctrne of Evolution, Its Basis and Its Scope, 1916

Hugo De Vries

• Species and Varieties, their Origin and Mutation

S.L. Goodale

• The Princples of Breeding or Glimpses at the Physiological Laws Involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals

Robert Leighton

• Dogs and All About Them

W.D. Matthew

• Dinosaurs with Special Reference to the American Museum Collections

Joseph McCabe

• The Story of Evolution

Jane Newell

• Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part 1, 1888

Albert M. Reese

• Development of hte Digestive Canal of the American Alligator

George John Romanes

• Darwin and After Darwin, volume 1, 1910
• the Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution, 1882

E.S. Russell

• Form and Fucntion, a Contribution t the History of Animal Morphology, 1916

Robert A. Sterndale

• Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

John M. Tyler

• The Whence and Whither of Man, a Brief History of His Origin and Development Through Conformity to Environment, 1896

James Weir

• The Dawn of Reason or Mental Traits in the Lower Animals, 1899

Edmund Beecher Wilson

• Biology, 1908

Periodicals

• Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Zoology, volume 3, 1859

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Creationism and Other Opponents of Evolution

At the Deathbed of Darwinism by E. Dennert

Creation and Its Records by B.H. Baden-Powell

Evolution, an Investigation and a Criticism by Thomas Graebner

Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith by Robert Patterson, 1875

In His Image by William Jennings Bryan

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John Draper

History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White (2 volumes in one file)

Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

Modern Atheism Under Its Forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and natural Laws by James Buchanan, 1857

On the Genesis of Species by St. George Mivart, 1871

The Secret of Creation by Dr. Howawrd D. Pollyen

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion and Morality by Rudolf Schmid, 1882

What Is Darwinism? by Charles Hodge, 1874

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Broad Applications of Evolution (including Social Darwinism and Eugenics)

• Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
• Darwinismus und Sozialismus oder Der Kampf um das Dasein und die Moderne Gesellschaft by Ludwig Buchner [in German], 1894
• The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin by John Fiske, 1884
• Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Charles Ellwood
• The Eugenic Marriage, a Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies by W. Grant Hague
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• Eugenics and Other Evils by G.K. Chesterton
• The Fertility of the Unfit by W.A. Chapple
• Origin and Nature of Emotions by George Crile
• The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes by Robert Yerkes, 1916
• Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman, 1922
• The Necessity of Atheism by D.M. Brooks, 1933
• Noteworthy Families (Modern Science), an Index to Kinships in Near Degrees Between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honoruable and have been Publicly Recorded by Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster, 1906
• The Physiology of Taste by Brillat Savarin
• Searchlights on Heath: The Science of Eugenics by B.G. Jefferis and J.L. Nichols, 1920
• Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche