Sachs. History of Botany, 1890. Excellent. Articles in the _Botanical Gazette_ for 1895 supplement his account by giving the more recent development of botany. White. A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, 2 vols., 1900. Good account of Vesalius and the overthrow of authority in science. Whewell. History of the Inductive Sciences, vol. II, 1863. Lacks insight into the nature of biology and the steps in its progress. Mentioned because so generally known. Williams. A History of Science, 5 vols., 1904. Finely illustrated. Contains many defects in the biological part as to the relative rank of the founders: Vesalius diminished, Paracelsus magnified, etc. Also, the Story of Nineteenth Century Science, 1900. Collected articles from _Harper's Magazine_. Good portraits. Uncritical on biological matters. Thomson. The Science of Life, 1899. An excellent brief history of biology. Foster. Lectures on the History of Physiology, 1901. Fascinatingly written. Notable for poise and correct estimates, based on the use of the original documents. Geddes. A Synthetic Outline of the History of Biology. _Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb._, 1885-1886. Good. Richardson. Disciples of Æsculapius, 2 vols., 1901. Collected papers from _The Asclepiad_. Sympathetic accounts of Vesalius, Malpighi, J. Hunter, and others. Good illustrations. Lankester. The History and Scope of Zoology, in The Advancement of Science, 1890. Good. Same article in Ency. Brit. under the title of Zoology. Spencer. Principles of Biology, 2 vols., 1866. Hertwig. The Growth of Biology in the Nineteenth Century, _Ann. Rept. Smithson. Inst._, 1900. Buckle. History of Civilization, vol. I, second edition, 1870. Macgilivray. Lives of Eminent Zoölogists from Aristotle to Linnæus. Merz. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, vol. II, Scientific Thought, 1903. Routledge. A Popular History of Science. General and uncritical as to biology. Hoefer. Histoire de la Zoologie, 1873. Not very good. Encyclopædia Britannica. Among the more excellent articles are: Biology by Huxley; Protoplasm by Geddes; History of Anatomy by Turner. Chambers's Encyclopædia. New Edition. Discerning articles by Thomson on the Cell-theory, by Geddes on Biology, Evolution. Nouvelle Biographie Générale. Good articles on the older writers. Often unreliable as to dates. Haeckel. The historical chapters in The Evolution of Man, 1892, and Anthropogenie, fifth edition, 1903. Good. Haeckel. The History of Creation, vol. I, 1884. Hertwig. The General Survey of the History of Zoölogy in his Manual of Zoölogy, 1902. Brief but excellent. Parker and Haswell. Text-book of Zoölogy, 1897. Historical chapter in vol. II. Nicholson. Natural History, its Rise and Progress in Britain, 1886. Also Biology. Pettigrew. Gallery of Medical Portraits, 5 vols. Contains many portraits and biographical sketches of men of general influence, as Bichat, Galen, Malpighi, etc.