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Cryptozoology

Here are entered works on the study of animals that are unexpected in time, place, size, or shape, or whose existence is based on testimony or circumstantial evidence.

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• Zoology

• Cryptozoology -- Periodicals

• Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life (Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Co., c1961), by Ivan Terence Sanderson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com

• Cryptozoology (full serial archives)
• The ISC Newsletter (full serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (partial serial archives)
• McGill University Publications, Series 11: Zoology (partial serial archives)
• Animal Biography: or, Popular Zoology (based on the second edition (1804), with added illustrations and notes), by William Bingley, ed. by Louise Hope (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Animal Life (New York: Review of Reviews Company, 1910), by B. Lindsay (PDF at djm.cc)
• Beginners' Zoology (Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1921), by Walter Moore Coleman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Book of Natural History (Boston: Hall and Locke, c1902), ed. by David Starr Jordan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Elements of Animal Biology (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Co., c1919), by Samuel J. Holmes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Memoir's for a Natural History of Animals (London: Printed by Joseph Streater, 1688), by Claude Perrault (page images at Wisconsin)
• Memorial Edition of Thomas Bewick's Works (5 volumes; London: Bernard Quaritch, 1885-1887), by Thomas Bewick, ed. by Jane Bewick, contrib. by Aesop and Austin Dobson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
• Wild Life at Home: How to Study and Photograph It (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1898), by Richard Kearton, illust. by Cherry Kearton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Zoological Science: or, Nature in Living Forms, Illustrated by Numerous Plates, Adapted to Elucidate the Chart of the Animal Kingdom (New York: E. B. and E. C. Kellogg, 1858), by Anna Maria Redfield (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, by Thomas Henry Huxley (HTML at Alberta)
• My Strange Pets, and Other Memories of Country Life, by Richard Bell (HTML at Forgotten Futures)
• Scientific Papers and Addresses (2 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1884), by George Rolleston, ed. by Wm. Turner, contrib. by Edward B. Tylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Great White South: Being an Account of Experiences With Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and of the Nature Life of the Antarctic (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1922), by Herbert George Ponting (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Voyage of the "Discovery" (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1905), by Robert Falcon Scott, contrib. by H. T. Ferrar, illust. by Edward Wilson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Arctic Zoology (based on the two volume London edition of 1784-1785, with annotations based on more recent sources), by Thomas Pennant, ed. by Louise Hope (illustrated HTML at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• The Naturalist in La Plata (third edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by W. H. Hudson, illust. by J. Smit (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology (full serial archives)

• Nelle Foreste di Borneo: Viaggi e Ricerche di un Naturalista (in Italian; Florence: S. Landi, 1902), by Odoardo Beccari (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nelle Foreste di Borneo: Viaggi e Ricerche di un Naturalista (posthumous edition revised by author's son, in Italian; Florence: Fratelli Alinari, Società Anonima, Istituto di Edizioni Artistiche, 1921), by Odoardo Beccari, contrib. by Nello Beccari (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Through the Brazilian Wilderness (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914), by Theodore Roosevelt, illust. by Kermit Roosevelt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • with limited illustrations: illustrated HTML at Bartleby

• Buffon's Natural History: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c. (10 volumes; 1797 and 1807), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, trans. by James Smith Barr (multiple formats at HathiTrust, archive.org, and Gutenberg)

• Encyclopedia of Life (continuously updated online edition) (illustrated HTML at eol.org)

• Natur- und Jagdstudien in Deutsch-Ostafrika (15th edition, in German; Stuttgart: Kosmos, Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde, 1919), by Hans Besser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Wanderings in South America, by Charles Waterton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Natural History Lore and Legend (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1895), by F. Edward Hulme (page images at Google)

• Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana, Made During the Year 1869, by Indiana Geological Survey (illustrated HTML at Indiana)

• Eastern Persia: An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission, 1870-71-72 (2 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1876), ed. by F. J. Goldsmid, contrib. by O. B. C. St. John, Beresford Lovett, Charles Euan-Smith, and W. T. Blanford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jungle Islands: The "Illyria" in the South Seas (New York and London: G. P. Putnam'S sons, 1930), by Sidney Nichols Shurcliff, contrib. by Karl Patterson Schmidt, illust. by Walter A. Weber (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Burgess Animal Book for Children, by Thornton W. Burgess (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• The Entertaining Naturalist: Being Popular Descriptions, Tales, and Anecdotes of More Than Five Hundred Animals (new edition; London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850), by Mrs. Loudon (page images at Google)
• Life and Her Children: Glimpses of Animal Life from the Amoeba to the Insects (New York: D. Appleton, 1881), by Arabella B. Buckley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist: Being Popular Descriptions, Tales, and Anecdotes of More Than Five Hundred Animals (new edition, revised and enlarged; London: Bell and Daldy, 1867), by Mrs. Loudon, ed. by W. S. Dallas
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Among the Forest People (New York: E. P. Dutton, c1898), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by F. C. Gordon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Among the Pond People (New York: E. P. Dutton, c1901), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by F. C. Gordon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Popular Scripture Zoology, Containing a Familiar History of the Animals Mentioned in the Bible (London: Reeve and co., 1852), by Maria E. Catlow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Secrets of the Woods, by William J. Long (Gutenberg text)
• Secrets of the Woods (Boston and London: Ginn and Company, 1902), by William J. Long (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• General Zoological Microtechniques (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1960), by Frances M. Weesner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalist's Account of China's "Great Northwest" (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1921), by Roy Chapman Andrews, illust. by Yvette Borup Andrews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Report of a Reconnaissance from Carroll, Montana Territory, on the Upper Missouri, to the Yellowstone National Park, and Return, Made in the Summer of 1875, by William Ludlow (page images at MOA)

• The Survey of Western Palestine: The Fauna and Flora of Palestine (London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1884), by H. B. Tristram (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Belgian Journal of Zoology (partial serial archives)
• Breviora (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Contributions to Zoology (full serial archives)
• Graellsia (partial serial archives)
• Állattani Közlemények (in Hungarian) (partial serial archives)
• Annual Review of Animal Biosciences (partial serial archives)
• Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde (full serial archives)
• Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (partial serial archives)
• Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society, by New York Zoological Society (partial serial archives)
• Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin de la Société Nationale d'Acclimatation de France (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Archivio Zoologico Italiano (partial serial archives)
• European Journal of Taxonomy (2011-) (full serial archives)
• Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale (partial serial archives)
• Acta Zoologica (partial serial archives)
• Arkiv för Zoologi (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of Experimental Zoology (partial serial archives)
• Transactions of the Zoological Society of London (partial serial archives)
• Zoologische Jahrbücher: Abteilung für Allgemeine Zoologie und Physiologie der Tiere (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Zoologische Jahrbücher: Abteilung für Anatomie und Ontogenie der Tiere (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses (partial serial archives)
• Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Annales des Sciences Naturelles: Zoologie (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin de la Société d'Acclimatation (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin de la Société Zoologique d'Acclimatation (in French) (full serial archives)
• Journal of the Linnean Society of London: Zoology (partial serial archives)
• The Biological Bulletin (issues from 1897 to 1 year ago are free to access) (partial serial archives)
• Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere (partial serial archives)
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.