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Total number of records: 160

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
birds	24
natural history	17
geology	7
butterflies	6
zoology	6
plants	6
lepidoptera	5
mechanics	5
chemistry	5
evolution	4

Count of Place

Place	Count
South America	4
United States	2
Pernambuco (Brazil)	2
Guyana	2
Antilles, Lesser	2
Guiana	1
Selborne (England)	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)	26
Smellie, William (1740-1795)	17
Smellie, William	17
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De (1707-1788)	17
Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1847-1909)	16
Morris, F O (1810-1893)	10
Waterton, Charles (1782-1865)	10
Lydekker, Richard (1849-1915)	9
Lydekker, Richard	6
Gregory, Olinthus (1774-1841)	6

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1700	35
From 1800	98
From 1900	27

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1799	35
Up to 1899	97
Up to 1999	28

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Insectivorous plants

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)

1875

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The various contrivances by which orchids are fertilised by insects

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)

1877

Title of 1st ed.: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects.

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The variation of animals and plants under domestication (v.1)

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)

1875

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The variation of animals and plants under domestication (v.2)

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)

1875

Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project

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Charles Waterton : his home, habits, and handiwork : Reminiscences of an intimate and most confiding personal association for nearly thirty years

Hobson, Richard (1795-1868)

1866

"Catalogue of pictures at Walton Hall, near Wakefield; as prepared by the late Mr. Waterton": p. [301]-317.

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Monita et praecepta medica

Mead, Richard (1673-1754)

1751

Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project

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Essays on natural history : third series

Waterton, Charles (1782-1865)

1857

Digitised copy of volume 1 available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project

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Observations and experiments for investigating the chymical history of the tepid springs of Buxton : together with an account of some newly-discovered, or little known properties of substances relating to several branches of chymistry, and animal and vegetable life; to which are prefixed, a chronological relation of the use of Buxton-water... intended for the improvement of natural science and the art of physic; in two volumes (v.1)

Pearson, George (1751-1828)

1784

Digitised copy of volume 1 available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project

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Observations and experiments for investigating the chymical history of the tepid springs of Buxton : together with an account of some newly-discovered, or little known properties of substances relating to several branches of chymistry, and animal and vegetable life; to which are prefixed, a chronological relation of the use of Buxton-water... intended for the improvement of natural science and the art of physic; in two volumes (v.2)

Pearson, George (1751-1828)

1784

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The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter (v.1)

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Darwin, Sir Francis (1848-1925)

1887

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The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter (v.2)

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Darwin, Sir Francis (1848-1925)

1887

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The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter (v.3)

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Darwin, Sir Francis (1848-1925)

1887