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• The McGee Memorial Meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences : held at the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., December 5, 1913. (Williams & Wilkins Co., 1916), by McGee Memorial Meeting (1913 : Carnegie Institution) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bigraphical memoir of Jeffries Wyman ([National Academy of Sciences] , 1886), by A. S. Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Once Upon a Time is Now: A Kalahari Memoir (New York: Berghahn Books, 2023), by Megan Biesele (JSTOR ebook)

• With a Critical Eye: An Intellectual and His Times (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2009), by Arthur J. Vidich, ed. by Robert Jackall (PDF at Tennessee)

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

• The Root of Roots, or How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Richard Price and Sally Price (PDF files with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• Guide to the Culin Archival Collection (originally published New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1996), by Deidre E. Lawrence and Deborah Wythe (HTML at Brooklyn Museum)

• Camping with the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher, by Alice C. Fletcher (illustrated HTML at Smithsonian)

• Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual-Use Anthropology (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by David H. Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Root of Roots, or How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Richard Price and Sally Price (PDF files with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• In War and Peace: My Life in Science and Technology (2002), by H. Guyford Stever (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Great Americans at a Glance: Inventors, Scientists (Great Americans at a Glance series v2; Redwood City: Pacific Coast Publishers, c1956), by Monroe Heath, illust. by Robert Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin (multiple editions)
• Cosmic Heretics: A Personal History of Attempts to Establish and Resist Theories of Quantavolution and Catastrophe in the Natural and Human Sciences, 1962-1983, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• American men of science : a biographical directory. (the Science Press, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Benjamin Silliman, M.D., LL.D., late professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology in Yale college. Chiefly from his manuscript reminiscences, diaries, and correspondence. (C. Scribner and company, 1866), by George Park Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amos Emerson Dolbear : a biography ([Dolbear, 1963?], 1963), by Inza S. Dolbear (page images at HathiTrust)
• American scientists in cancer-virus research; a biblio-directory of current studies. (National Cancer Institute, 1962), by Elizabeth Koenig, Lois Fritz, and National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Benjamin Franklin; containing the autobiography, with notes and a continuation. (Tappan and Dennet, 1844), by Benjamin Franklin and Jared Sparks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Benjamin Franklin, written by himself : now first edited from original manuscripts and from his printed correspondence and other writings (Lippincott, 1884), by Benjamin Franklin and John Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
• La science populaire de Claudiu s. Simples discours sur toutes choses. Sur la vie de Franklin. (Paris, 1837), by Ch. Ruelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : with notes and a sketch of Franklin's life from the point where the autobiography ends (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benjamin Franklin, his life (Ginn & Company, 1906), by Benjamin Franklin, William P. Trent, and D. H. Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (American book company, 1907), by Benjamin Franklin and Albert H. Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete works of Benjamin Franklin; including his private as well as his official and scientific correspondence, and numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed, with many others not included in any former collection, also, the unmutilated and correct version of his autobiography. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1887), by Benjamin Franklin, Henry Bryan Hall, John Bigelow, and Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Franklin �elete (Franklin-T�arsulat, 1874), by M. Mignet and Attila de Gerando (page images at HathiTrust)
• Albert Abraham Michelson: the man who taught a world to measure (Technical Information Dept., Naval Weapons Center, 1970), by Calif.) Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pioneers of science in America : sketches of their lives and scientific work (D. Appleton, 1896), by William Jay Youmans (page images at HathiTrust)

• Furankurin (Hakubunkan, 1902), by Gorō Kumagai and Toshikata Mizuno (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories about Dr. Franklin, designed for the instruction and amusement of children. (D.F. Robinson and Co., 1829), by Philemon Canfield, David F. Robinson, and Conn.) D.F. Robinson & Co. (Hartford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker, to the Secretary of State, With His Answer (Philadelphia: D. Lawrence, 1792), by Benjamin Banneker, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson
  • HTML at UMD
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• Banneker, the Afro-American astronomer ([publisher not identified], 1921), by Will W. Allen, Mildred Nilon, Charles H. Nilon, and Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bigraphical memoir of Jeffries Wyman ([National Academy of Sciences] , 1886), by A. S. Packard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rachel Carson: Pen Against Poison (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), ed. by George Clack and Bruce Odessey (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Mécanique céleste (From the press of Isaac R. Butts, Charles C. Little and James Brown, publishers, 1839), by N. I. Bowditch, Pierre Simon Laplace, and Joseph T. Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)

• My First Summer in the Sierra, by John Muir
  • HTML at Sierra Club
  • page images at loc.gov
• Our Friend John Burroughs, by Clara Barrus (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, by John Muir
  • illustrated HTML at Sierra Club
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
• Life of Henry David Thoreau (London: W. Scott, 1896), by Henry S. Salt
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Sierra Club)
• The days of a man : being memories of a naturalist, teacher, and minor prophet of democracy (World Book Co., 1922), by David Starr Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Henry David Thoreau : including many essays hitherto unpublished, and some account of his family and friends (Houghton Mifflin, 1917), by F. B. Sanborn, Bruce Rogers, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoreau, the poet-naturalist : with memorial verses (Roberts Brothers, 1873), by William Ellery Channing, Press of John Wilson and Son, and Mass.) Roberts Brothers (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916), by John Muir, William Frederic Badè, and Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of John Muir (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924), by William Frederic Badè (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography ([Gainesville ? Florida, 1945), by William Alphonso Murrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life history of an American naturalist (The Jaques Cattell Press, 1945), by Francis B. Sumner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Golden cloak (Stanford University Press, 1946), by Alvin Seale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The outermost house : a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod (Doubleday, Doran and company, inc., 1928), by Henry Beston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reveries and recollections of a naturalist (s.n.], 1898), by Oliver Davie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf (Houghton Mifflin, 1916), by John Muir and William Frederic Badè (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of nature, time, and Teale; a biographical sketch of Edwin Way Teale. (Dodd, Mead, 1960), by Edward Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Henry David Thoreau, including many essays hitherto unpublished and some account of his family and friends (Gale Research Co., 1968), by F. B. Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoreau, the poet-naturalist : with memorial verses (Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902), by William Ellery Channing, Bruce Rogers, F. B. Sanborn, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress), and Merrymount Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in Alaska (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1915), by John Muir and Marion Randall Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louis Agassiz : his life and correspondence (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1890), by Louis Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and Mifflin and Company Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A fairy tale written for, and first read to Allie, Joseph, Jr., and Clarence Leidy, at a dinner given to Prof. Joseph Leidy, M. D., September 9th, 1882, on the 59th anniversary of his birthday. ([Philadelphia, 1882), by Joseph Leidy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jeffries Wyman : Memorial meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History, October 7, 1874. ([Boston] : [Boston Society of Natural History] , [1874], 1874), by Asa Gray and Boston Society of Natural History (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commemorative notice of Louis Agassiz. (Ann. Rep. Coun. Am. Acad. Arts. and Sci., 1873), by Theodore Lyman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louis Agassiz, teacher. (1907), by Burt G. Wilder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The naturalist of the Saint Croix : memoir of George A. Boardman, a selection from his correspondence and published writings, notices of friends and contemporaries, with his list of the birds of Maine and New Brunswick ([s.n.], 1903), by Samuel Lane Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and writings of Rafinesque (J. P. Morton and Company, 1895), by Richard Ellsworth Call (page images at HathiTrust)
• The outermost house : A year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod, by Henry Beston (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir, ed. by William Frederic Badè (Gutenberg ebook)
• Henry D. Thoreau, by F. B. Sanborn (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of Scotch, by Enos A. Mills (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rambles of a Naturalist, by John D. Godman (Gutenberg ebook)
• My First Summer in the Sierra, by John Muir (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, by John Muir (Gutenberg ebook)

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