Environmental History materials in Haverford Special Collections

By John James Audubon. This work is an 1840 edition in seven volumes of Audubon’s work describing and illustrating birds in North America. It includes full color illustrations. The college owns two complete editions and a folio reissue with larger illustrations.

By John James Audubon. This book is a 1851 edition of Audubon’s work describing quadruped animals with full color illustrations. Special Collections also owns an elephant folio first edition.

By John Coakley, who was an English doctor and entomologist. This work is a catalog of techniques for taking and preserving samples while traveling abroad. It also contains some speculations on natural history.

By Charles Christopher Reiche. The first part of this book covers weather phenomena and topics related to farming, while the second discusses the life-cycles of various animals. The last two discourses concern different forms and causes of atheism.

By Francis Bacon, it is a "natural history in ten centuries" and describes a variety of natural history experiments.

By William Smellie, who was an encyclopedist involved in the creation of the first edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. This work discusses the life-cycle of animals as it differs across different species.

By Charles Darwin. A first-edition copy of Darwin’s work on evolution.

Agricultural information related to the family home of the Cope family in Dimock, PA. (MC 1230)

William Bartram (1739–1823) was an important early American scientist. This book includes his art, correspondences, and unpublished writing.