Edwin Lankester
(1814–1874)

English surgeon and naturalist

Edwin Lankester

Works

As author

  • Regular columns for the Daily News between 1840 and 1846, mostly on medical reform
  • An Account of Askern and Its Mineral Springs (1842) ex|https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t4cn8b40t}}
  • Lectures on the Natural History of Plants Yielding Food (1845) (external scan)
  • "Rotifera" in Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology (1847)
  • The Aquavivarium, Fresh and Marine: Being An Account of the Principles and Objects Involved in the Domestic Culture of Water Plants and Animals (1856) (external scan)
  • "Sanitary Science", with William Lethaby, in Encyclopaedia Britannica (8th edition, 1859)
  • Half-Hours with the Microscope: Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Microscope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction (1859) (external scan)
  • On Food (1861) (external scan)
  • "'Stumpy Brown'" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 11 (1864)
  • A School Manual of Health (1868); later editions titled Practical Physiology (external scan)
  • A series of "Annual Reports", published from 1866 in the Journal of Social Science.

As translator

  • Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Principles of Scientific Botany; or, Botany as an Inductive Science (1845) (external scan)
  • Friedrich Küchenmeister, On Animal and Vegetable Parasites of the Human Body: A Manual of Their Natural History, Diagnosis, and Treatment (1857) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

As editor

Works about Lankester


Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

 
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