Books on the History of Science

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Post by Sammy7 »

So there is some good world history audiobooks on audiobookbay (Will Durants "The Story of Civilization". It is over 300 hours), J M Roberts "History of the World" and Susan Bauer's books. There is Will Durants "The Story of Philosophy" and Bertrand Russell's "A History of Philosophy". There is 2 history of science books on there but they look poor and are both not downloading. A good history of science audiobook is sorely needed. There is some good looking ones on amazon. I dont want to read it myself, is there any other way i can contribute? I would contribute some $ if thats whats needed.
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Most if not all suggestions are not Public Domain so we can't give them away for free. Depending on the branch of science much has happened in the science world since 1922 so to find a good PD is hard and it will certainly not be up to date.

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As annise says, any books that we can record will not include the science of the 20th and 21st centuries, but there are some interesting books which deal with science in previous ages.

The 1904 A History of Science by Henry Smith Williams is available in five volumes on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/698. Unfortunately his later book, The Story of Modern Science, was published in 1923 and hence remains in copyright.

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We don't seem to have any science history books on librivox, but this one:

https://librivox.org/the-advance-of-science-in-the-last-half-century-by-t-h-huxley/

It is very short and was written in 1889. A very brief glance at the text reveals that at least atomic theory and biology form a part of it.

And then we have 3 volumes of "The outline of Science", but that's a bit different, not directly history:
https://librivox.org/group/567

Hope this helps anyway.
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Here's a long list of scientific titles from series published prior to 1922. I've been working my way through the chemistry titles (along with one or two others), but there are lots of others from which to choose. Many if not most of these were probably geared to the general public and some are written for children, but the authors with asterisks "identifies those authors where there is some evidence of academic qualifications and/or a professional affiliation" according to the person who compiled the list.

I don't remember exactly where I found this list and I can't seem to find a link to it online. There are a lot more titles on the original list, but the rest were published after 1922 and are therefore currently not in the public domain. I'm sure there are other PD titles out there that were not part of publishers series, but this list would certainly keep us busy for quite some time. I haven't searched the catalog to see what else has been recorded; I've just linked the ones I know are in the catalog. :wink: I also haven't looked to see how many of the texts are available online. Just sharing the list for anyone who might be interested. Enjoy! :)

Library of Useful Stories. Newnes, 1897; later reissued as Hodder and Stoughton’s Useful Knowledge Library.
Grant Allen, The Story of Plants (1898) https://archive.org/details/storyplants00allegoog
Douglas Archibald, The Story of the Earth‟s Atmosphere (1897) https://archive.org/details/storyearthsatmo03archgoog
James Mark Baldwin*, The Story of the Mind (1899) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20522
W. A. Brend, The Story of Ice (1899)
G. F. Chambers*, The Story of Eclipses (1899) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24222
-----, The Story of the Solar System (1895) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.12077142 (1915) https://archive.org/details/storysolarsyste00chamgoog (1909)
-----, The Story of the Stars (1899) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn1fqt
-----, The Story of the Weather (1897) https://archive.org/details/storyofweathersi00chamrich
Edward Clodd, The Story of Primitive Man (1898) https://archive.org/details/storyprimitivem00clodgoog
H. W. Conn, The Story of Germ Life (1897) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4962
George Henslow*, The Story of Wild Flowers https://archive.org/details/storyofwildflowe00hens
Sydney J. Hickson*, The Story of Life in the Seas (1898) https://archive.org/details/storylifeinseas01hickgoog
E. A. Martin*, The Story of a Piece of Coal (1897) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12762
M. M. Patterson Muir*, The Story of the Chemical Elements (1897) https://archive.org/details/b28061974
-----. The Story of the Wanderings of Atoms (1899) https://archive.org/details/storyofwandering00muir
John Munro, The Story of the British Race (1899) http://djm.cc/library/The_Story_of_The_British_Race_Munro.pdf
-----, The Story of Electricity (1905) http://librivox.org/the-story-of-electricity-by-john-munro/
W. P. Pycraft, The Story of Bird Life (1900) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015019723421
H. G. Seeley*, The Story of the Earth in Past Ages (original publication 1895) https://archive.org/details/storyearthinpas04seelgoog (1906 edition)
Alfred T. Story, The Story of Wireless Telegraphy (1904, revised 1912) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021061315 (1909 edition)

Progressive Science Series. Bliss, Sands & Co, 1898; later taken over by John Murray.
Frank E. Beddard*, A Book of Whales (1900) https://archive.org/details/bookofwhales00bedd
T. G. Bonney*, Volcanoes (1899) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015031081733 (3rd ed. 1913)
Clarence Edward Dutton*, Earthquakes (1904) https://archive.org/details/earthquakesinli00duttgoog
Archibald Geikie*, Earth Sculpture (1898, reprinted 1902) https://archive.org/details/earthsculptureor00geikrich (1908)
A. C. Haddon*, The Study of Man (1898) https://archive.org/details/b21444584
Marcus Hartog*, Problems of Life and Reproduction (1913) https://archive.org/details/b21965675
Jacques Loeb*, The Comparative Physiology of the Brain (1901) https://archive.org/details/cu31924003168220 (1902)
Charles F. Minot*, The Problem of Age, Growth and Death (1908) https://archive.org/details/problemofagegrow00mino
St. George Jackson Mivart*,The Groundwork of Science (1898) https://archive.org/details/groundworkscien02mivagoog
Simon Newcomb*, The Stars (1901) https://archive.org/details/starsastudyuniv02newcgoog (1904)
Charles Lane Poor*, The Solar System (1908) https://archive.org/details/solarsystemastu02poorgoog
Frederick Soddy*, The Interpretation of Radium (1909) https://archive.org/details/b28137577
Israel C. Russell*, River Development (1898) (no online text found under this title)
George S. Sternberg*, Infection and Immunity (1905) https://archive.org/details/infectionimmunit00sterrich (1903) Also 1907 ed. at Hathi Trust US access only.
J. Arthur Thomson*, Heredity (1907, 2nd edn. 1912) https://archive.org/details/hereditythomsonj00thomrich (4th ed. 1920)
Robert de Courcy Ward*, Climate (1909) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433090739503 (2nd Rev. Ed. 1918)

Library of Romance. Seeley & Co., 1903.
T. W. Corbin, The Romance of Modern Railways (1922) https://archive.org/details/romanceofmodernr00corbrich
-----, The Romance of Submarine Engineering (1913) https://archive.org/details/romancesubmarin00corbgoog
-----, The Romance of War Inventions (1918) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34459
C. A. Ealand*, The Romance of the Microscope (1921) https://archive.org/details/cu31924003018474
F. Scott Elliot*, The Romance of Plant Life (1907) https://archive.org/details/romanceofplantli1907elli
Charles R. Gibson, The Romance of Coal (1923) not PD?
-----, The Romance of Modern Manufacture (1910) https://archive.org/details/romancemodernma00gibsgoog
-----, The Romance of Modern Electricity (1907) https://archive.org/details/romanceofmoderne00gibsrich (1910)
-----, The Romance of Modern Photography (1908) https://archive.org/details/romancemodernph00gibsgoog
-----, The Romance of Scientific Discovery (1914) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006521043 (US access only for some reason)
E. S. Grew*, The Romance of Geology (1911) https://archive.org/details/romancemodernge00grewgoog (1909) 1911 edition at Hathi Trust US access only
John Lea*, The Romance of Bird Life (1909) https://archive.org/details/romanceofbirdlif00leaj
Hector Macpherson, Jr.*, The Romance of Modern Astronomy (1911, reprinted 1913) https://archive.org/details/cu31924031323656
James C. Philip*, The Romance of Modern Chemistry (1910) - http://librivox.org/the-romance-of-modern-chemistry-by-james-c-philip/
Edmund Selous. The Romance of the Animal World (1905, reprinted 1911)
-----, The Romance of Insect Life (1906, reprinted 1909, 1921)
Archibald Williams*, The Romance of Modern Engineering (1904, reprinted 1910, 1913)
-----, The Romance of Modern Invention (1903)
-----, The Romance of Modern Locomotion (1904, reprinted 1923)
-----, The Romance of Modern Mechanism (1907)
-----, The Romance of Modern Mining (1915)

Science of Today series. Seeley & Co., 1907.
T. W. Corbin, Engineering of To-Day (1911)
Cecil G. Dolmage*, Astronomy of To-Day (1909)
C. W. Domville-Fyfe, Submarine Engineering of To-Day (1919)
C. A. Ealand*, Animal Ingenuity of To-Day (1921)
G. F. Scott Elliot*, Botany of To-Day (1909)
Charles R. Gibson, Electricity of To-Day (1907, rev. 1935)
-----, Scientific Ideas of To-Day (1909, 8th edn. 1932)
H. Chapman Jones*, Photography of To-Day (1913)
C. C. Turner*, Aircraft of To-Day (1917)

History of Science series. Watts, 1909. Later advertised as Popular Science series.
George Forbes*, History of Astronomy (1909)
J. Scott Keltie* and O. J. R. Howarth*, History of Geography (1913)
L. C. Miall*, History of Biology (1911) https://librivox.org/history-of-biology-by-louis-compton-miall/
Sir Edward Thorpe*, History of Chemistry (1921) https://librivox.org/history-of-chemistry-vol2-by-sir-edward-thorpe/

Library of Living Thought. Harper Brothers, 1909.
Svante Arrhenius*, The Life of the Universe (1909)
A. W. Bickerton*, The Birth of Worlds and Systems (1911)
Frederick Czapek*, Chemical Phenomena in Life (1912) https://librivox.org/chemical-phenomena-in-life-by-frederick-czapek/
Arthur Keith*, Ancient Types of Man (1911)
Sir Oliver Lodge*, The Ether of Space (1909)
F. W. Mott*, The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song (1910)
G. Eliot Smith*, Ancient Egyptians (1911)
William A. Tilden*, The Elements: Speculations as to their Nature and Origin (1910)

Scientific Primers. J. M. Dent, 1909.
F. W. Dyson*, Astronomy (1913)
Harvey Gibson*, Biology (1909)
Reynolds Green*, Botany (1909)
J. W. Gregory*, Geology (1910)
Charles Sherrington*, Physiology (1906)
W. A. Tilden*, Chemistry (1909)

Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1910.
C. Edgar Allen*, The Modern Locomotive (1912)
Dr A. E. Newell Arber*, The Natural History of Coal (1911)
E. L. Attwood*, The Modern Warship (1913)
F. E. Beddard*, Earthworms and their Allies (1912)
A. J. Berry*, The Atmosphere (1913)
T. G. Bonney*, The Work of Rain and Rivers (1912)
F. O. Bower*, Plant Life on Land (1911)
G. H. Carpenter*, The Life-Story of Insects (1913)
A. Chaston Chapman*, Brewing (1912) https://librivox.org/brewing-by-alfred-chaston-chapman/
Grenville A. J. Cole*, Rocks and their Origins (1912) https://librivox.org/rocks-and-their-origins-by-grenville-a-j-cole/
T. A. Coward, The Migration of Birds (1912, 3rd edn. 1929)
John Cox*, Beyond the Atom (1913)
W. J. Dakin*, Pearls (1913, reprinted 1919) https://librivox.org/pearls-by-william-john-dakin/
C. Davison*, The Origin of Earthquakes (1912)
L. Doncaster*, Heredity in the Light of Recent Research (1910, 3rd edn. 1921)
W. H. Duckworth*, Prehistoric Man (1912)
C. L. Fortescue*, Wireless Telegraphy (1913)
H. F. Gadow*, The Wanderings of Animals (1913)
A. H. Gibson*, Natural Sources of Energy (1913)
A. C. Haddon*, The Wanderings of Peoples (1911, reprinted 1919, 1929)
E. H. Harper*, and Allan E. Ferguson*, Aerial Locomotion (1911)
Bernard Hart*, The Psychology of Insanity (1912, reprinted 1914, 1918, 1920,1930)
C. G. Hewitt*, House Flies (1914)
Julian Huxley*, The Individual in the Animal Kingdom (1912)
James Johnston*, Life in the Sea (1911, reprinted 1930)
J. W. Judd*, The Coming of Evolution (1911)
F. W. Keeble*, Plant-Animals: A Study in Symbiosis (1910)
O. H. Latter*, Bees and Wasps (1913)
C. S. Myers*, An Introduction to Experimental Psychology (1911, reprinted 1914, 1926, 1939)
J. H. Poynting*, The Earth (1913)
Clement Reid*, Submerged Forests (1913)
H. Russell, The Flea (1913)
E. J. Russell*, The Fertility of the Soil (1911, reprinted 1913, 1921)
Alfred B. Searle, The Natural History of Clay (1912)
A. C. Seward*, Links with the Past in the Plant World (1911, reprinted 1921)
Geoffrey Smith*, Primitive Animals (1911)
C. Warburton*, Spiders (reprinted 1921)
A. G. Whyte*, Electricity in Locomotion (1911)
Alex. Wood*, The Physical Basis of Music (1913)
T. B. Wood*, The Story of a Loaf of Bread (1913)

Common Commodities and Industries. Sir Isaac Pitman, 1910.

G. H. J. Adlam*, Acids, Alkalis and Salts (1919)
H. A. Auden*, Starch and Starch Products (1922)
-----, Sulphur and Allied Products (1921)
Clayton Beadle and H. P. Stevens*, Rubber (1911)
J. A. Greene and F. Mollwo Perkins*, Patent, Smokeless and Semi-Smokeless Fuels (1922)
J. Allen Howe*, Stones and Quarries (1920)
T. E. Lones*, Zinc and its Alloys (1919)
George Martineau, Sugar (1910)
C. Ainsworth Mitchell*, Oils (1910)
Ernest J. Parry*, Gums and Resins (1918)
-----, The Raw Materials of Perfumery (1921)
W. A. Simmons*, Soap (1917)
Alec B. Stevens*, Textile Bleaching (1921)
A. R. Warnes*, Coal Tar

Readable Books in Natural Knowledge. Macmillan, 1910.
Grenville A. J. Cole*, The Changeful Earth (1911)
Margaret R. and J. Arthur Thomson*, Threads in the Web of Life (1910, reprinted 1921)
E. E. Fournier d’Albe*, The Wonders of Physical Science (1910, revised 1936)
Marion I. Newbiggin*, Tillers of the Ground (1910)
James C. Philip*, Achievements of Chemical Science (1913)
W. W. Skeat*, The Past at Our Doors (1911, reprinted 1932)
Twentieth Century Science Series. Milner, 1910. Price 1/-.
A. C. Haddon*, Races of Man and their Distribution (1912)
George Hickling*, Geology: Chapters of Earth History (1910)
Joseph McCabe, Evolution: From Nebula to Man (1910)
-----, Prehistoric Man (1910)

Wonder Library. Seeley & Co., 1910.
T.W. Corbin, TheWonders of the Modern Railway (1911)
H. Coupin*, and John Lea*, The Wonders of Animal Ingenuity (1910)
D. F. Scott Elliot*, The Wonders of the Plant World (1910)
Charles R. Gibson, The Wonders of Modern Electricity (1914, revised 1924)
-----, The Wonders of Scientific Discovery
John Lea, The Wonders of Bird Life (1912)
Hector Macpherson, Jr.*, The Wonders of Modern Astronomy
James C. Philip*, The Wonders of Modern Chemistry (1913)
Edmund Selous, The Wonders of the Insect World (1911)
Archibald Williams*, The Wonders of Mechanical Ingenuity (1910)
-----, The Wonders of Modern Engineering (1914)
-----, The Wonders of Modern Invention (1914)

Home University Library. Williams and Norgate, 1911. (later published by Thornton Butterworth and then by Oxford University Press).
W. F. Barrett*, Psychical Research (1911)
Grenville A. J. Cole*, The Growth of Europe (1914)
H. N. Dickson*, Climate and Weather(1912)
J. Bretland Farmer*, Plant Life (1914)
F. W. Gamble*, The Animal World (1911)
Patrick Geddes* and J. Arthur Thomson*, Evolution (1911)
Geddes and Thomson, Sex (1914)
J. W. Gregory*, The Making of the Earth (1911)
A. R. Hinks*, Astronomy, 1860-1911 (1911, revised 1936)
Gisbert Kapp*, Electricity (1912)
Arthur Keith*, The Human Body (1912)
William McDougall*, Psychology: The Study of Behaviour (1911)
Raphael Meldola*, Chemistry (1913, revised by Alexander Findlay*, 1920)
H. Crichton Miller*, Psycho-Analysis and its Derivatives (1933)
Benjamin Moore*, The Origin and Nature of Life (1913)
Sir John Murray*, The Ocean (1913, reprinted 1928)
Robert Munro*, Prehistoric Britain (1913, reprinted 1919)
D. H. Scott*, The Evolution of Plants (1911, revised edn. 1925)
Frederick Soddy*, Matter and Energy (1912, reprinted 1928)
Prof. J. Arthur Thomson*, An Introduction to Science (1911, revised 1928)

Peeps at Nature. A. and C. Black, 1911

R. Elmhirst*, The Naturalist at the Seashore (1913, reprinted 1928)
Daniel Ferguson*, British Ferns, Clubmosses and Horsetails (1912)
Charles A. Hall*, Wild Flowers (1911)
-----. Romance of the Rocks (1913)
-----. Pond Life (1913)
-----. Common British Beetles (1914)
-----. Trees (1930)
A. E. Hodges*, The „Zoo‟ Aquarium
A. Nicol Simpson*, British Land Mammals (1911)
-----. Reptiles and Amphibians (1913)
A. M. Stewart, British Butterflies (1912, 2nd edn., 1926)
-----. Common British Moths (1913, reprinted 1930)
W. Percival Westell*, Bird Life of the Seasons (1911, reprinted 1935)
-----. Natural History of the Garden (1912, reprinted 1920)

The Nation’s Library. Collins, 1912.
A. C. de la C. Crommelin*, The Star World (1914, reprinted 1930)
Charles R. Gibson, 20th Century Inventions (1914)
Claude Grahame-White, Aviation (1912)
Vivian B. Lewes*, Oil Fuel (1913)
Joseph McCabe, The Principles of Evolution (1913)
Edgar Schuster*, Oxford, Eugenics (1912)

People’s Books. T. C. and E. C. Jack, 1912. (later published by Nelson)
E. C. C. Baly*, Inorganic Chemistry (1912)
T. G. Bonney*, The Structure of the Earth (1912)
Norman R. Campbell*, Principles of Electricity (1912)
Julius B. Cohen*, Organic Chemistry (1912)
Edwin S. Goodrich*, The Evolution of Living Organisms (1912, reprinted 1919)
P. E. B. Jourdain, The Nature of Mathematics (1913)
Gerald Leighton*, Embryology: The Beginnings of Life (1912, reprinted 1920)
-----, Huxley: His Life and Work (1912)
G. F. K. Lempfert*, Weather-Science (1912)
E. W. MacBride*, Zoology: The Study of Animal Life (1912, reprinted 1922)
H. Matheson, Practical Astronomy (1913)
E. W. Maunder*, The Science of the Stars (1912)
-----, Sir William Huggins and Spectroscopic Astronomy (1912)
Percy Phillips*, Radiation (1912)
-----, The Science of Light (1913)
A. E. Russell*, Lord Kelvin: His Life and Work (1912)
MacGregor Skene*, Wild Flowers (1913)
M. C. Stopes*, Botany: Or the Modern Study of Plants (1912, reprinted 1920)
Sydney F. Walker, Aviation (1913)
J. A. S. Watson*, Heredity (1912, reprinted 1919)
H. I. Watt, Psychology (1912)
W. C. D. Whetham*, The Foundations of Science (1912)

Playbooks of Science series. Henry Frowde/Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.
V. E. Johnson*, Chemistry and Chemical Magic (1912, reprinted 1922)
-----. Electricity and Electrical Magic (1913)
-----. Flying and Some of its Mysteries (1912)
-----. Mechanics and Some of its Mysteries (1912)

Triumphs of Enterprise. Blackie, 1913. Reissued as The Enterprise Library in 1929 with additional volumes.
Cyril Hall, Conquests of Engineering (1913)
-----, Conquests of the Sea (1916)
-----, Seven Ages of Invention
-----, Triumphs of Invention
-----, Treasures of the Earth (1915)
-----, Wood and What We Make of It (1913)
-----, The Wonders of Transport (1914)

Romance of Reality series. Nelson, 1914. Edited by Ellison Hawks. Transferred to T.C. and E. Jack after the Great War
E. H. Curry*, The Man-of-War: What She has Done and What She is Doing (1914)
-----, Animals of the Sea (1922)
Arthur Dwerryhouse*, Geology (1914)
W. Coles Finch and Ellison Hawks, Water in Nature (1914)
C. Grahame-White* and Harry Harper, The Aeroplane (1914)
Ellison Hawks, Astronomy (1922)
V. E. Johnson, Modern Inventions (1915)
Gordon Knox, Engineering (1915)
W. H. MacCormick, Electricity (1914)

Science for Children series. Seeley, Service & Co., 1916.
Charles R. Gibson, Chemistry and its Mysteries
-----, The Great Ball on Which We Live (1915)
-----, Our Good Slave Electricity
-----, The Stars and their Mysteries (1916)
-----, War Inventions and How they were Invented (1917)
Marvel Library. Seeley, Service & Co., 1917. Price 3/6d.
Thomas R. Corbin, Marvels of Scientific Invention (1917)

Marvels series. Thornton Butterworth, 1921.

W. S. Berridge*, Marvels of the Animal World (1921)

Science for All. John Murray , 1921. Later renamed as the General Science series.
G. H. J. Adlam*, Chemistry (1921, reprinted 1929)
W. J. R. Calvert, Physics (four vols.)

Science in Everyday Life series. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1922.
R. E. Machin*, Science in a Coalfield
A. T. McDougall*, Nature‟s Giant Forces (1922, reprinted 1928)
-----, Nature‟s Mysterious Movements
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*drools*

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What a list!
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I'm not a science person, and even I feel drawn by this list :wink: Thank you for compiling it!

An Introduction to the History of Science by Walter Libby looks like a readable and survey-ish book http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40706.
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It's funny how things catch your eye when they hit your own areas of interest. The book on British Ferns, Clubmosses and Horsetails drew me. Not on Gutenberg, but abebooks has some fairly cheap copies. It's only 88 pages long. I'll get a copy for me to read.

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Or a scan of the 1912 edition is available on the Biodiversity Heritage Library site here: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60067#page/7/mode/1up

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That's useful; thanks, Ruth.

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I have found copies of "The Ocean: A general account of the science of the sea" by Sir John Murray on Hathi Trust.
Link: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001878500
Would it be acceptable to use one of these copies for a project?
I couldn't find anything on Project Gutenberg or the archives.
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Post by annise »

There are a few on Internet Archive that look OK . (Haithi said it was full view but didn't let me see, which is odd and maybe just a glitch , but as I couldn't see a date on the pages I can't say it is OK :(

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There isn't a date on the scan, but Hathi has it listed as published in 1913. The same edition is available on IA and Biodiversity Library from reliable sources so I think this is OK to use.

https://archive.org/details/oceangeneralacco00murr/mode/2up
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knotyouraveragejo wrote: January 28th, 2022, 10:35 pm There isn't a date on the scan, but Hathi has it listed as published in 1913. The same edition is available on IA and Biodiversity Library from reliable sources so I think this is OK to use.

https://archive.org/details/oceangeneralacco00murr/mode/2up
Thanks Anne and Jo! Will look into it and probably set up the project by next week. :D

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