Author:Edwin Lankester

Edwin Lankester
(1814–1874)

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

• John Ray, Correspondence of John Ray (1848)
• Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science; co-edited with George Busk (1853–1868), and with Edwin Ray Lankester (1868-1871)
• William Macgillivray, Natural History of the Dee Side and Braemar (1855)
• Natural history sections of the Penny Cyclopaedia and the English Cyclopaedia

Works about Lankester

• "Lankester, Edwin," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.