Tracts on the natural history of animals and vegetables / translated from the original Italian of the Abbe Spallanzani ... by John Graham Dalyell ... With physiological illustrations, by the translator.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spallanzani, Lazzaro, 1729-1799.

Contributor:

Dalyell, John Graham, 1775-1851, translator.

Bonnet, Charles, 1720-1793.

Lee Peachey Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Opuscoli di fisica animale, e vegetabile. English. 1803

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Biology.

Animalcules.

Penn Provenance:

Peachey, Lee D. (donor) (Peachey Collection copy)

Sandy, G. (autograph) (Peachey Collection copy)

Harvard University Library of the Biological Laboratories (bookplate) (Peachey Collection copy)

Society of Writers to the Signet (Stamp) (Peachey Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Printed for W. Creech and A. Constable, 1803.

Contents:

I. Physiological reflections on the natural history of animals and vegetables. Observations and experiments on the animalcula of infusions. Two epistolary dissertations on infusion animalcula addressed to the author, by M. Bonnet of Geneva. Observations and experiments on the seminal vermiculi of man and other animals, with an examination of the celebrated theory of organic molecules.

II. Observations and experiments on the seminal vermiculi [cont'd] Observations and experiments on animals and vegetables confined in stagnant air. Observations and experiments on some singular animals which may be killed and revived. Observations and experiments on the origin of the plantulae of mould. Results of experiments on the reproduction of the head of the garden snail. Experiments on the reproduction of the head of the terrestrial snail, by C. Bonnet. Memoirs on the reproduction of the members of the water newt, by C. Bonnet.

Notes:

Translation of Opuscoli di fisica animale, e vegetabile.

Local Notes:

Peachey Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Lee Peachey.

Peachey Collection copy formerly in Harvard University Library of the Biological Laboratories. Cover stamped in gold with coat of arms of: The Society of Writers to the Signet.

OCLC:

14844812