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• Experiments on the Generation of Insects (translated from the Italian edition of 1688; Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1909), by Francesco Redi, ed. by Robert Payne Bigelow, trans. by Mab Bigelow (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin (Washington: Joseph Henry Press, 2005), by Robert M. Hazen (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Search for Life's Origins: Progress and Future Directions in Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution (1990), by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images at NAP)
• The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1905), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by Joseph McCabe
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe" (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), by Oliver Lodge (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Search for Life's Origins: Progress and Future Directions in Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution (1990), by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images at NAP)
• Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (c2002), by Steven A. Frank (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Biology (second edition; Houston: OpenStax College, c2020) (multiple formats at openstax.org)
• On-Line Biology Book (revised edition, 2007), by Michael J. Farabee (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Shaping the Future: Biology and Human Values (1989), by Steve Olson (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey (partial serial archives)
• New Biology (Boston et al.: Allyn and Bacon, c1934), by W. M. Smallwood, Ida L. Reveley, and Guy A. Bailey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1914), by George W. Hunter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Discourses: Biological and Geological Essays, by Thomas Henry Huxley (Gutenberg text)
• Elements of Physical Biology (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1925), by Alfred J. Lotka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature and Life: Facts and Doctrines Relating to the Constitution of Matter, the New Dynamics, and the Philosophy of Nature (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875), by Fernand Papillon, trans. by August Rodney Macdonough (PDF with commentary at arfalpha.com)
• The Principles of Biology (revised and enlarged edition, 2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1900-1910), by Herbert Spencer
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Nova Acta, Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington (partial serial archives)
• Daedalus: or, Science and the Future, by J. B. S. Haldane (HTML at bactra.org)
• 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
• Novorum Actorum (full serial archives)
• Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the Inorganic and Organic Kingdoms as Exemplified in Matter, Force, Life, Growth, Rhythms, &c., Especially in Crystals, Plants, and Animals (3 volumes; London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1908), by James Bell Pettigrew
  • all volumes: multiple formats at biodiversitylibrary.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Life: Its True Genesis (second edition, 1884), by Horatius Flaccus (Gutenberg text)
• The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1905), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by Joseph McCabe
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only

• Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology (partial serial archives)

• The Encyclopedia of the Biological Sciences (New York: Reinhold; London: Chapman and Hall, c1961), ed. by Peter Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of Life (continuously updated online edition) (illustrated HTML at eol.org)

• Principles of Field Biology and Ecology (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1958), by Allen H. Benton and William E. Werner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know (New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., c1939), by Edwin Tenney Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey (partial serial archives)

• Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (partial serial archives)
• BMC Biology (2003-) (full serial archives)
• Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology (issues online 1998-) (partial serial archives)
• F1000Research (2012-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of Advanced Laboratory Research in Biology (2010-) (full serial archives)
• PLoS Biology (2003-) (full serial archives)
• Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences (with predecessor publications; 1977-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of Experimental Biology (partial serial archives)
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, by Royal Society (Great Britain) (partial serial archives)
• Brazilian Journal of Biology (partial serial archives)
• Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research (issue online 1997-) (partial serial archives)
• Cell Reports (2012-) (full serial archives)
• PeerJ (2013-) (full serial archives)
• Scientific Reports (London: Nature Publishing Group, 2011-) (full serial archives)
• Developmental Biology (partial serial archives)
• Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis (partial serial archives)
• The Quarterly Review of Biology (partial serial archives)
• European Journal of Taxonomy (2011-) (full serial archives)
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum (partial serial archives)
• The American Biology Teacher (partial serial archives)
• Biological Reviews and Biological Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (partial serial archives)
• Comptes Rendus des Séances de la Société de Biologie et de ses Filiales (in French) (partial serial archives)
• L'Année Biologique (partial serial archives)
• Biologiske Meddelelser (in Danish) (partial serial archives)
• Annales des Sciences Naturelles (in French) (full serial archives)
• The Biological Bulletin (issues from 1897 to 1 year ago are free to access) (partial serial archives)
• Our Nature: An International Biological Journal (partial serial archives)
• Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society: Biological Sciences (full serial archives)
• Annales des Sciences Naturelles: Botanique (partial serial archives)
• The American Naturalist (partial serial archives)
• Biometrika (partial serial archives)
• Comptes Rendus des Travaux du Laboratoire Carlsberg (in French and English) (partial serial archives)
• International Journal of Molecular Medicine (partial serial archives)

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