Books Online

The Carnegie Institution has published over 600 books since 1902. The following books are available from the institution's website, but as of July 1, 2007, we are no longer selling bound versions of our publications.

Thank you for your patience during our transition period. If you have any questions or problems -- and especially suggestions for improvement -- please address them to John Strom at jstrom@ciw.edu.

Finally, please note that our methods of online distribution are in their preliminary stages. We are contemplating a number of future improvements, including a wider variety of formats and resolutions. If you would like to be informed when improved versions and methods of distribution are implemented, please email John Strom at the above email address.

The downloadable books available online at this site are provided for scientific and scholarly use only. Your downloading of material from this site constitutes your agreement not to sell this material or distribute it for profit.

Archaeology

Ceramics for the Archaeologist, by Anna O. Shephard, 1956.

Notes from a Ceramic Laboratory, by Anna O. Shephard with H.B. Gottlieb, E.W. Andrews, and H.E.D. Pollock, 1977.

Astronomy

The Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies, by Allan Sandage and John Bedke, 2 volumes, 1994, reprint edition 1996.
Volume 1
Volume 2

A Revised Shapley-Ames Catalog of Bright Galaxies, by Allan Sandage and G.A. Tammann, 1981, 2nd edition 1987.

General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities, by Ralph E. Wilson, 2nd printing 1963.

Earth Sciences

The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, Andrew C. Lawson, Chairman, 1908, reprinted 1969.

Physical copies of the report may be available from the California Geological Surve, who may be contacted at Menlo Park (650 688 6327) or in Sacramento, California (916 445 5716).

Atlas of Maps and Seismographs Accompanying the Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission upon the California Earthquake of April 18, 1906 is available from The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection www.davidrumsey.com

Geochemical Transport and Kinetics, by A.W. Hofmann, B.J. Giletti, H.S. Yoder, Jr., and R.A. Yund, eds., 1974.

Embryology

Developmental Stages in Human Embryos, by Ronan O'Rahilly and Fabiola Muller, 1987.

General Science

The Search for Understanding: Selected Writings of Scientists of the Carnegie Institution, Published on the Sixty-Fifth Anniversary of the Institution's Founding, Edited by Caryl P. Haskins. 1967.

Genetics

Drosophila Guide: Introduction to the Genetics and Cytology of Drosophila melanogaster, by M. Demerec and B.P. Kaufmann (with revisions by A. Spradling), 1940, 10th edition 1996 (PDF 11.4 MB)

Genetic Variations of Drosophila melanogaster, by D.L. Lindsley and E.H. Grell; 1968.

Plant Biology

Algal Culture: From Laboratory to Pilot Plant, J.S. Burlew, ed., 1953.

Experimental Studies on the Nature of Species, Vol. VI: Interspecific Hybrid Derivatives between Facultatively Apomictic Species of Bluegrasses and Their Responses to Contrasting Environments, by William M. Hiesey and Malcolm Nobs; 1982.

Guayule (Parthenium agentatum Gray): A Rubber-Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert, by Francis Ernest Lloyd; 1911.

Carnegie Institution Year Book 46
Carnegie Institution Year Book 47
Carnegie Institution Year Book 95
Carnegie Institution Year Book 96-97
(further selected volumes to come).

Perspectives in Science

#2. How Galaxies Rotate (1986)

#3. Becoming a Scientist (1987)

#5. The Chemistry of Ancient Life (1992)

#6. Jumping Genes (1994)

Thermodynamics

Condensed Collections of Thermodynamic Formulas for One-Component and binary Systems of Unit and Variable Mass, by George Tunell; 1985

Access to the Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, CIW publication #247, 1927, is provided courtesy of the Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center.
The Cactaceae, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, & Vol. 4 by N. L. Britton & J. N. Rose, 1919-1923

Taxonomy of the Amebas, with Descriptions of Thirty-Nine New Marine and Freshwater species, by Asa Arthur Schaeffer, 1926

Researches of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. (The following PDFs are derived from microfilm versions of the publications. Note that these are very large files. They are currently being processed into multiple, smaller files for quicker individual download.)