Contents

pp v-viii

Preface

pp ix-xii

Part One - 1800–1846 Naturals and Naturalists

pp 1-2

Part One Introduction

pp 3-12

“A Memoir on the Discovery of Certain Bones of a Quadruped of the Clawed Kind in the Western Parts of Virginia,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (1799)

pp 13-22

“Pileated Woodpecker,” American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States (1801)

pp 23-26

“Currents,” The New American Practical Navigator (1802)

pp 27-30

“Account of a North American Quadruped, supposed to belong to the Genus Ovis, Rocky-Mountain Sheep, Ovis Montana,” Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1817)

pp 31-34

“A Monograph of North American insects, of the genus Cincindela” (excerpt) Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (1818)

pp 35-37

“On the Genus Ocythoe,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1819)

pp 37-40

“Preface,” American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America (1824–28)

pp 40-42

“Preface” (excerpt), The Genera of North American Plants and a Catalogue of the Species, to the Year 1817 (1818)

pp 43-44

“Pileated Woodpecker,” Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada (1832)

pp 44-46

“Introduction,” Ichthyologia ohiensis, or natural history of the fishes inhabiting the river Ohio and its tributary streams (1820)

pp 47-50

“Notices of Materia Medica, or new medical properties of some American Plants,” Western Minerva or, American Annals of Knowledge and Literature (1820)

pp 50-52

“Passenger Pigeon,” Ornithological Biography (1831)

pp 53-60

“On the Production of Currents and Sparks of Electricity from Magnetism,” American Journal of Science and Arts (July 1832)

pp 61-66

“The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever” (excerpts), New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine (1843)

pp 67-72

“On the Two Storms Which Were Experienced throughout the United States, in the Month of February, 1842” (excerpt) Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (1845)

pp 73-78

Part Two - 1846–1876 Warriors

pp 79-80

Part Two Introduction

pp 81-92

“On the Fossil Horses of America,” Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1847)

pp 93-98

“A Flora and Fauna Within Living Animals” (excerpt), Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge (1853)

pp 98-108

“Examination of the Radiations of Red-Hot Bodies. The Production of Light by Heat” (excerpt), American Journal of Science and Arts (1847)

pp 109-116

“Section IX: Range of the Geographical Distribution of Animals,” Essay on Classification (1857)

pp 117-123

“On the Origin of Species” (excerpt), American Journal of Science (1860)

pp 123-124

“Darwin on the Origin of Species,” Atlantic Monthly (1860)

pp 125-134

“Sequoia and Its History” (excerpt), American Naturalist (1872)

pp 134-144

“On the Origin of the Geographical Distribution of Crustacea” (excerpt), Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1856)

pp 145-153