Author:William Benjamin Carpenter

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William Benjamin Carpenter
(1813–1885)

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British zoologist and physiologist

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "W. B. C."

Works

On the voluntary and instinctive actions of living beings, 1837 (external scan)
On unity of function in organized beings, 1837 (external scan)
Principles of general and comparative physiology, 1839 (external scan)
Inaugural dissertation on the physiological inferences to be deduced from the structure of the nervous system in the invertebrated classes of animals, 1839 (external scan)
Popular cyclopaedia of natural science, 1841 (external scan)
Principles of human physiology, 1842 (external scan)
Animal physiology, 1843 (external scan)
Zoology, 1844 (external scan), (external scan)
A manual of physiology, 1846 (external scan)
Temperance and teetotalism, 1847 (external scan)
Vegetable Physiology and Systematic Botany, 1848 (external scan)
On the use and abuse of alcoholic liquors in health and disease, 1850 (external scan)
Elements of physiology, 1851 (external scan)
Principles of physiology, general and comparative, 1851 (external scan)
Principles of comparative physiology [Supplementary material in Charles Darwin's copy], 1854 (external scan)
On the influence of suggestion in modifying and directing muscular movement, independently of volition, 1852 (external scan)
The physiology of temperance & total abstinence, 1853 (external scan)
The microscope, and its revelations, (external scan), (external scan), (external scan)
"General Results of the Study of Typical Forms of Foraminifera" in Natural History Review, Series 2, 1 (2) (1861), pp. 185–201
"On the Systematic Arrangement of the Rhizopoda" in Natural History Review, Series 2, 1 (4) (1861), pp. 456–472
Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera, with William Kitchen Parker and Thomas Rupert Jones 1862 (external scan)
On binocular vision and the stereoscope, 1862 (short work) (external scan)
The correlation and conservation of forces, by Prof. Grove, Prof. Helmholtz, Dr. Mayer, Dr. Faraday, Prof. Liebig and Dr. Carpenter. 1865 (external scan)
Researches on the structure, physiology and development of Antedon (Comatula, Lamk.) rosaceus, 1866 (external scan)
The depths of the sea. An account of the general results of the dredging cruises of H.M. SS. Porcupine and Lightning during the summers of 1868, 1869 and 1870, under the scientific direction of Dr. Carpenter, F.R.S., J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., and Dr. Wyville Thomson, F.R.S (1873) (external scan)
The truth about vaccination & smallpox, 1881 (external scan)
Nature and Man: Essays Scientific and Philosophical, 1888 (external scan)
Mechanical philosophy, horology, and astronomy, 1857 (external scan)
Principles of Mental Physiology - With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions (1874) ((external scan))

Contributions to EB9

"Atlantic Ocean," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 3) (1878)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

Works about Carpenter

Notes on Carpenter's Human physiology by Mackall, Louis, 1801-1876 (1852) (external scan)
"Carpenter, William Benjamin," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Carpenter, William Benjamin," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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