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By laelaps on May 23, 2008.

In the process of doing some research yesterday I came across some old books that are available for free download via Google Books. I know not everyone shares my particular affinity for yellowing 19th century science books, but if you do you might want to check out some of these titles;

Georges Cuvier - Essay on the Theory of the Earth (English translation)

William Buckland - Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

William Buckland - Reliquiae Diluvianae

W.J. Broderip - Zoological Recreations

Robert Chambers - Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, With a Sequel

Charles Lyell - The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man

Thomas Browne - Pseudodoxia Epidemica

Edward Hitchcock - The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences

T.H. Huxley - American Addresses

Richard Owen - Palaeontology

John Phillips - Life on Earth

Ernest Ingersoll - The Life of Animals: The Mammals

T.H. Huxley - Discourses: Biological and Geological

John Pratt - Scripture and Science Not at Variance

There's one or two others that I obtained yesterday, but their names escape me at the moment. I don't particularly like reading books on the computer (my eyes feel like they're going to fall out of my head after a few minutes), but it's hard to beat free pdfs of books that I probably would never find (or have to shell out hundreds of dollars for) otherwise.

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