Bibliographia Zoologiae

"It is an astonishing achievement for one man, containing an enormous number of entries from Aristotle onwards, not only from the famous but also from obscure people who published little, and drawing on publications in several languages. It is a tool which should be in the hands of the historian of science, and the taxonomist; and a reprint is most welcome."
--David Knight

"We must not overlook the valuable service he rendered to science by the formation, for his own use, of a catalogue of scientific memoirs - an extraordinary work for a man whose hands were already so full."
--Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition

As one of the "founding fathers" of American natural history Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-73) made major contributions to nineteenth-century geology, palaeontology and zoology. Bibliographia Zoologiæ, first published in 1838-54 by the Ray Society, is a monumental study of natural history, containing a comprehensive listing of books and articles relating to zoology and biology. Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-53), a British naturalist, played a large part in the editing and publication of this significant work and added more than a third of new material to the original manuscript. Also containing a guide to scientific periodicals and to the publications of natural history societies and institutions, this four-volume work is an essential bibliographical tool for historians of zoology and geology and all scholars of the history of science.