Ed Ricketts: Scientific Books

The following list of scientific books represent a best estimate of what comprised the library collection of Edward Flanders Ricketts. The list was compiled based on the following sources:
(1) Those titles gifted to the Stanford University Library by Mrs. Edward F. Ricketts in 1948. Designated by: (!)
(2) The 3 x 5 bibliography cards filed as "Books" from Ed Ricketts bibliography card collection. Designated by: (@)
(3) The titles referenced as comprising the library aboard the Western Flyer during the trip to the Sea of Cortez mentioned in the book, The Log of the Sea of Cortez, by John Steinbeck. Designated by: (^)
(4) Those titles referenced in the book, Between Pacific Tides by Edward Flanders Ricketts and Jack Calvin. Designated by: (&)
(5) Those titles referenced within the publication Steinbeck's Reading by Robert J. DeMott which originate from a fifteen page "Personal Inventory of Books," Ed Ricketts began keeping after the fire of November 25, 1936. Designated by: (#)
According to DeMott, the "Personal Inventory of Books," provides a detailed list of his library holdings, and indicates the date when replacement copies were accessioned (desiderata refers to books in the original collection which were not replaced).
See also Books of Personal Interest
An abridged check list and bibliography of west North American marine Mollusca / A. Myra Keen. Stanford, Calif., London, Stanford University Press; H. Milford Oxford University Press, 1937. Source ( ! )
Actinologia britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals / Philip Henry Gosse. London, Van Voorst, 1860. Source ( ! )
Anatomy of the human body. Thoroughly revised and re-edited by Warren H. Lewis / Henry Gray. Philadelphia & New York, Lea & Febiger, 1930. Source ( ! )
Animal aggregations, a study in general sociology / W. C. Allee. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1931. Source ( ! )
Animal ecology / Charles S. Elton. New York, Macmillan Co., 1927. Source ( @ )
Animal ecology, with special reference to insects / Royal Norton Chapman. New York & London, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1931. Source (@ )
Animal life and social growth / W. C. Allee. Baltimore, The Williams & Wilkins Company & Associates in cooperation with the Century of Progress Exposition, 1932. Source ( @ )
Animal life as affected by the natural conditions of existence / C. Semper. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1881. Source ( @ )
Animals of the Sea / F. Martin Duncan. 1924. Source ( @ )
Animals of the seashore / Muriel L. Guberlet. Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan Press, 1936. Source ( !, #)
Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters / Walter K. Fisher. Washington, U. S. Govt. Printing Office, 1911. Source ( !, ^)
Beneath tropic seas; a record of diving among the coral reefs of Haiti / William Beebe & New York Zoological Society. New York, London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. Source ( @)
Bering's voyages; an account of the efforts of the Russians to determine the relation of Asia and America / Frank Alfred Golder & Leonhard Stejneger. New York, American Geographical Society, 1922. Source ( ! )
Between Pacific tides. An account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific coast between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico / Edward Flanders Ricketts & Jack Calvin. Stanford University, Calif., London, Stanford University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1939. Source ( @ )
Between the tides / William Crowder. New York, Dodd, 1931. Source ( @ )
Biological chemistry and physics of sea water / Hildebrande Wolfe Harvey. Cambridge, England, The University Press, 1928. Source ( @ )
The biology of the sea-shore / Fredrick William Flattely & Charles Livesey Walton. New York, Macmillan, 1922. Source ( !, @, ^, #)
Biology of the vertebrates; a comparative study of man and his animal allies. / Herbert Eugene Walter. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Source ( # )
The Brachyura / Mary Jane Rathbun. Cambridge, U. S. A., Museum of Comparative zoology, 1907. Source ( ^ )
The British sea anemones / Thomas Alan Stephenson. London, The Ray Society, 1928. Source ( ! )
The California Deserts. A visitor's handbook ... With chapters by S. Stillman Berry and Malcolm J. Rogers. [With illustrations.]. / Edmund Carroll Jaeger. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1933. Source ( # )
Caribbean treasure / Ivan Terence Sanderson. New York, The Viking press, 1939. Source ( # )
Catalogue of shells collected at Panama, with notes on synonymy, station, and habitat. Read before the Lyceum of Natural History, May 10th, 1852 / C. B. Adams. New York, 1852. Source ( ! )
Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle / Charles Darwin & Nora Barlow. New York, Philosophical Library, 1946. Source ( @ )
Class-book of Geology / Sir Archibald Geikie. London, New York: Macmillan, 1892. Source ( # )
Corals and coral islands / James Dwight Dana. New York, Dodd & Mead, 1874. Source ( ! )
The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago / F. H. H. Guillemard. London, J. Murray, 1886. Source ( ! )
Culture methods for invertebrate animals / Paul Simon Galtsoff; Frank Eugene Lutz; Paul S. Welch; James G. Needham & American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ithaca, N.Y., Comstock Publishing Company, Inc., 1937. Source ( ! , @ )
The depths of the ocean; a general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic / Haakon Hasberg Gran; Bjorn Helland-Hansen & Michael Sars John Murray; Johan Hjor; Jakob Johan Adolf Appellof. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. Source ( @ )
Der Naturfreund am Meeresstrande : eine Einfuehrung in das Verstaendnis für das Meer. / Karl Isidor Cori. Wien, Leipzig, E. Haim & Co., 1928. Source ( @ )
Distribution and relationship in American hydroids / C. McLean Fraser. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1946. Source ( ! )
Dwellers of sea and shore / William Crowder. New York, Macmillan Co., 1923. Source ( @ )
Ecological animal geography; an authorized, rewritten edition based on Tiergeographie auf oekologischer Grundlage / W. C. Allee & Karl Patterson Schmidt. Richard Hesse. New York, London, J. Wiley & Sons, Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1937. Source ( @ )
El mar, acuario del mundo / Enrique Rioja y Lo Bianco. Mexico, Editorial Seneca, 1941. Source ( !,@ )
The elements of embryology / Sir M. Foster; Francis M Balfour; Adam Sedgwick & Walter Heape. London, New York, Macmillan & Co., 1896. Source ( # )
Epibioses of the Gullmar Fjord / Torsten Gislen. Stockholm, Almqvist & Wicksells Boktryckeri, 1930. Source ( ! )
Fishes and shells of the Pacific world / John Treadwell Nichols & Paul Bartsch. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1945. Source ( ! )
The fishes of Panama Bay / Charles Henry Gilbert & Edwin Chapin Starks. San Francisco, The Academy, 1904. Source ( ! )
Flora of the southern United States : containing abridged descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns of Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, arranged according to the natural system. / A. W. Chapman & D. C. Eaton. New York: lvison, Blakeman, Taylor, 1872. Source ( # )
Galapagos, world's end / William Beebe & New York Zoological Society. New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. Source ( @, # )
Geographie des Indischen und Stillen ozeans; im auftrage der Deutschen seewarte verfasst / Gerhard Schott; Wolfgang Schott; Ernst Hentschel. Hamburg, C. Boysen, 1935. Source ( @ )
Handbook for shell collectors; illustrations and descriptions of 2,200 species of Mollusca / Walter Freeman Webb. Rochester, N.Y., 1936. Source ( ! )
Handbook of Chemistry & Physics / Chemical Rubbing Company. Cleveland, OH, 1940. Source ( @ )
The Haunts of Life / J. Arthur Thompson. New York Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1922. Source ( @ )
Human protozoology / Robert William Hegner & William H. Taliaferro. New York, Macmillan 1924. Source ( # )
Hydroids of the Atlantic coast of North America / C. McLean Fraser. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1944. Source ( ! )
Hydroids of the Pacific coast of Canada and the United States / C. McLean Fraser. Toronto, The University of Toronto Press, 1937. Source ( !, # )
Individuality in organisms / Charles Manning Child. Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press, 1915. Source ( ! )
Insects of western North America : a manual and textbook for students in colleges and universities and a handbook for county, state and federal / Edward Essig. New York: Macmillan, 1926. Source ( # )
An introduction to oceanography, with special reference to geography and geo-physics / James Johnstone. Liverpool, The University Press of Liverpool Limited;, 1923. Source ( @, & )
The Invertebrata; a manual for the use of students / F. A. Potts L. A. Borradaile, L. E. S. Eastham & J. T. Saunders. . New York, Cambridge, Eng., The Macmillan company; The University Press, 1935. Source ( !, # )
The invertebrates / Libbie Henrietta Hyman. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1940. Source ( !, @ )
Laboratory and field ecology; the responses of animals as indicators of correct working methods / Victor E. Shelford. Baltimore, The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1929. Source ( @, # )
Laboratory and field text in invertebrate zoology / Sol Felty Light. Berkeley, Calif. Associated Students Store, University of California, 1941. Source ( !, @ )
Laboratory Practices for Beginners in Botany / William Albert Setchell. New York: Macmillan 1897. Source ( # )
Life in the sea / James Johnstone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911. Source ( @, & )
Life of the shore and shallow sea / Douglas P. Wilson. London, Nicholson & Watson, 1935. Source ( @ )
Littoral fauna of Great Britain / Nellie Barbara Eales. Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1939. Source ( @ )
Los animales marinos / Enrique Rioja y Lo Bianco. Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Editorial Labor, 1929. Source ( ! )
Lower California: a cruise; the flight of the Least petrel / Griffing Bancroft. New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1932. Source ( # )
A manual of the common invertebrate animals, exclusive of insects / Henry Sherring Pratt. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1935. Source ( !, @, # )
The marine algae of the Pacific coast of North America / William Albert Setchell & Nathaniel Lyon Gardner. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1919. Source ( !, & )
The marine decapod Crustacea of California : with special reference to the decapod Crustacea collected by the United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer "Albatross" in connection with the biological survey of San Francisco bay during the years 1912-1913 / Waldo L. Schmitt & Albatross (Steamer). Berkeley University of California press, 1921. Source ( ^ )
Marine fishes of Southern California / Percy Spencer Barnhart. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1936. Source ( ^ )
The Marine shells of the west coast of North America, Volume 1 / Ida Shepard Oldroyd. Stanford University, Calif. : Stanford University, 1924. Source ( ! )
The Marine shells of the west coast of North America, Volume 2 / Ida Shepard Oldroyd. Stanford University, Calif. : Stanford University, 1924. Source ( ! )
A monograph of the British marine annelids / William Carmichael McIntosh. London, The Ray Society, 1873. Source ( ! )
Natural history of marine animals / G. E. MacGinitie & Nettie MacGinitie. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1949. Source ( @ )
A naturalist at the seashore / William Crowder. New York, London, Century Co, 1928. Source ( @)
A naturalist in Indian seas; or, Four years with the Royal Indian marine survey ship "Investigator," / A. Alcock & India Marine Survey. London, J. Murray, 1902. Source ( @ )
Nemerteans of the west and northwest coasts of America / Wesley R. Coe. Cambridge, Mass., Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 1905. Source ( ! )
North Pacific Pilot [Part I-II] / James F. Imray. London, James Imray & Son, 1868. Source ( @ )
The ocean; a general account of the science of the sea / John Murray. London, Williams & Norgate, 1913. Source ( @ )
The oceans, their physics, chemistry, and general biology / Martin W. Johnson & Richard Howell Fleming. H. U. Sverdrup. New York, Prentice-Hall, inc., 1942. Source ( !, @ )
Panamic marine shells; synonymy, nomenclature, range and illustrations / Maxwell Smith & Rollins College (Winter Park Fla.). Beal-Maltbie Shell Museum. Winter Park, Fla., Tropical photographic Laboratory, 1944. Source ( ! )
Peninsular California; some account of the climate, soil productions, and present condition chiefly of the northern half of Lower California / Charles Nordhoff. New York: Harper, 1888. Source ( # )
Polychetes errantes / Pierre Louis Andre Fauvel. Paris P. Lechevalier, 1923. Source ( ! )
Polychetes sedentaires; addenda aux errantes, archiandelides, myzostomaires / Pierre Louis Andre Fauvel. Paris, P. Lechevalier, 1927. Source ( ! )
Recent advances in the chemistry & biology of sea water / Hildebrande Wolfe Harvey. Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press, 1945. Source ( @ )
Sailing directions for British Columbia, v.1 / United States Hydrographic Office. Washington, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1941. Source ( !, @ )
Sailing directions for British Columbia, v. 2: Cape Caution to Alaska / United States Naval Oceanographic Office. Washington, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1941. Source ( @ )
Sailing directions for the west coast of North America : embracing the coasts of Central America, California / James Frederick Imray. London, J. Imray, 1853. Source ( @ )
Science of the sea; an elementary handbook of practical oceanography for travellers, sailors and yachtsmen, prepared by the Challenger society for the promotion of the study of oceanography / G. Herbert Fowler & Edgar Johnson Allen. Oxford, The Clarendon press, 1928. Source ( @, & )
Science of the sea. An elementary handbook of practical oceanography for travellers, sailors, and yachtsmen / Challenger Society of London. London & New York: John Murray, Dutton, 1912. Source ( !, @ )
The sea and its wonders / Cyril Hall. New York, M. S. Mill Co., Inc., 1938. Source ( ! )
Sea of Cortez; a leisurely journal of travel and research, with a scientific appendix comprising materials for a source book on the marine animals of the Panamic faunal province / John Steinbeck & Edward Flanders Ricketts. New York, The Viking Press, 1941. Source ( @ )
The sea-beach at ebb-tide; a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tide-marks / Augusta Foote Arnold. New York, The Century Co., 1903. Source ( & )
The sea-beach at ebb-tide; a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tide-marks / Augusta Foote Arnold. New York, The Century Co., 1916. Source ( @ )
The seas; our knowledge of life in the sea and how it is gained / Frederick S. Russell & C. M. Yonge. London, New York, F. Warne & co. ltd., 1928. Source ( @, ^ )
The seas; our knowledge of life in the sea and how it is gained / Frederick S. Russell & C. M. Yonge. London & New York, F. Warne & co. ltd., 1936. Source ( !, @, # )
Seashore animals of the Pacific coast / Myrtle Elizabeth Johnson & Harry James. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1927. Source ( ^, # )
Seashore Life / Harrington Wells. Harr Wagner Publishing Co, 1937. Source ( @ )
The seashore parade / Muriel L. Guberlet. Lancaster, Pa., Jaques Cattell Press, 1942. Source ( @ )
Seaside studies in natural history / Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz & Alexander Agassiz. Boston, Houghton, 1893. Source ( ! )
Shore processes and shoreline development / Douglas Wilson Johnson. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1919. Source ( @, &)
The social life of animals / W. C. Allee. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1938. Source ( @ )
A Text-Book of Bacteriology / Philip Hiss & Hans Zinsser. New York: D. Appleton, 1919. Source ( # )
Textbook of Zoology / George Edwin Potter. St. Louis, C.V. Mosby Company, 1938 Source ( @ )
This great and wide sea : an introduction to oceanography and marine biology / Robert Ervin Coker. University of North Carolina Press, 1947. Source ( ! )
Three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880 / Alexander Agassiz & U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. Boston & New York, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1888. Source ( !, @ )
The tide / Harry Aaron Marmer. New York, London, D. Appleton & Company, 1926. Source ( @, & )
Tide-pool animals / Harrington Wells. Sacramento, California State Print. Office, G.H. Moore, State Printer, 1935 Source ( @ )
U. S. Coast Pilot, Alaska, Part II. Yakutat to Arctic Ocean / Coastal & Geodetic Survey U. S. Department of Commerce. Washington 1938. Source ( ! )
U. S. Coast Pilot, Alaska. Part I Dixon Entrance to Yakutat Bay / Coastal & Geodetic Survey U. S. Department of Commerce. 1932. Source ( ! )
The U. S. S. 'Albatross' in Lower Californian seas : cruise of 1911 : articles collected from the American Museum Bulletin and Novitates, and from Zoologica, of the years 1912-1925 / Charles Haskins Townsend & American Museum of Natural History. New York, American Museum of Natural History, 1926. Source ( ! )
Vega-expeditionens vetenskapliga iakttagelser / A. E. Nordenskioeld. Stockholm, F. & G. Beijers, 1882. Source ( ! )
Views of nature : or, Contemplations on the sublime phenomena of creation. With scientific illustrations / Alexander von Humboldt. London, G. Bell & Daldy, 1872. Source ( !, # )
Views of Nature: or contemplations on the sublime phenomena of creation. With scientific illustrations / Alexander von Humboldt. London: G. Bell 1896. Source ( !, # )
West coast shells : a description in familiar terms of principal marine, fresh-water, and land mollusks of the United States, British Columbia, and Alaska, found west of the Sierra / Josiah Keep & Joshua Longstreth Baily. Stanford University, Calif., London Stanford University Press ; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1935. Source ( !, ^ )
Wonders of the Great Barrier Reef / T. C. Roughley. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1947. Source ( @ )
The world under the sea; a concise account of the marine world. / B. W. Smith. New York, London, D. Appleton-Century Co., 1940. Source ( @)
World-wide sea shells; illustrations, geographical range and other data covering more than sixteen hundred species and sub-species of molluscs / Maxwell Smith and Joshua Longstreth Baily. Lantana, Fla., Tropical Photographic Laboratory, 1940. Source ( ! )
A year on the Great Barrier reef; the story of corals & of the greatest of their creations / C. M. Yonge. London, New York, Putnam, 1930. Source ( @ )
Zaca venture / William Beebe & New York Zoological Society. New York, Harcourt, 1938. Source ( @, # )
Zoology : a systematic account of the general structure, habits, instincts, and uses of the principal families of the animal kingdom / William Benjamin Carpenter. London, Wm. S. Orr, 1848. Source ( # )