Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/Texts

Public domain resources

(sorted chronologically)

• Challenger expedition http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-42/htm/doc.html

Images of 18th century paintings are in commons:Gastropoda in scientific graphics gallery too.

100 years after the author's death

• (electronic version needed) Emil Adolf Rossmässler: (1835-1859): Iconographie der Land- und Süßwassermollusken. (3 volumes) [Iconography of land Mollusca and freshwater Mollusca]

only google version available http://www.archive.org/details/iconographieder00rollgoog

• Frederick Wollaston Hutton (1873): Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species.

• William Thomas Blanford (*1832-†1905) (1908): - Mollusca. Testacellidae and Zonitidae. - The Fauna of British India, including Burma and Ceylon.

80 years after the author's death

• The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States, and the adjacent territories of North America - (there are good images in those books but scans in those pdf are in low quality.)
  • Amos Binney (1803-1847; U.S.A.) & edited by Augustus Addison Gould: Volume 1
  • Volume 2
  • Volume 3
  • Volume 4
  • William Greene Binney (1833-1909; U.S.A.) (1878): Volume 5 - text, plates

• (electronic version needed) Stefan Clessin (*1833-†1911, Germany) (1887): Die Molluskenfauna Österreich-Ungarns und der Schweiz. - pp. 1-858. Nürnberg. (Bauer & Raspe).

• Joseph William Williams; John William Taylor (*1851-†1910); William Denison Roebuck (*1851-†1919) (1892): Land and fresh-water shells: an introduction to the study of conchology. - images exported: Image:Helix aspersa scalarid.png. Other version are: 1889 and 1907

70 years after author's death

• Edward Step (*1855-†1931) (1901): Shell life: an introduction to the British Mollusca. - London, New York: F. Warne & co. - image exported: Image:Anodonta cygnea glochidium.png

• (electronic version needed) John William Taylor (*1845-†1931, U.K.) (1894-1914): Monograph of the land and freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles. Vols. 1-3. Taylor Brothers, Leeds.

Few parts or volumes parts are already available at: 1907 http://www.archive.org/details/monographoflandf814tayl part 8-14; http://www.archive.org/details/monographoflandf1521tayl part 15-21; 1921 http://www.archive.org/details/monographoflandf2224tayl part 22-24. Previous volume (volume I) is not available yet.

• (electronic version needed) Hermann Felix Paul Ehrmann (abbreviation Ehrmann P.) (* 21st December 1868 – † 6th October 1937; Germany) (1933): Mollusca. - In: Brohmer, Ehrmann & Ulmer: Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas, 2 (Lief. 1) 264 pp. + 13 tables. Leipzig, Quelle & Meyer.

PD-NZ

Published in New Zealand.

• Henry Suter (1913): Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca
  • (1915). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Atlas of plates. John Mackay, Government printer, Wellington. (72 plates with descriptions)

• Images and texts by Walter Reginald Brook Oliver (1883–1957) published in the New Zealand are PD.

pre-1923 in USA

Publications published before January 1, 1923 in the USA are public domain under {{PD-1923}}.

Notable authors:

• Henry Augustus Pilsbry

Journals:

• The Nautilus (journal) - available volumes 9-35 and new ones - Volumes 3-35 are public domain under {{PD-1923}}. It is possible to add original description of news species which are still valid, for example like in this article about bivalve Ochlockonee moccasinshell.

1923 - 1977 from USA without a copyright notice

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-US-no_notice

• Manual of Conchology volume 27 and volume 28 - no copyright notice, full scans is available at Internet Archive.

• (1961). "The land snail genus Amphidromus: a synoptic catalogue". Fieldiana Zoology 41(4). - I have verified this by myself and at authorities at The Field Museum Library and at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. --Snek01 (talk) 14:14, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
• also other volumes of Fieldiana Zoology that are on the Internet Archive and have written copyright status "public domain".

1923 - 1963 from USA with a copyright notice, and its copyright was not renewed

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-US-not_renewed

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CC-BY resources

• TolWeb.org
  • Pages by Roger R. Seapy

• ZooKeys The article and published supplementary material are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0):
  • ZooKeys

Will be free soon

work by Louis Germain (1878-1942) will be public domain/free in 2013.

• Germain L. (1930). Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. vol I., Faune de France, number 21, 478 p. PDF
• Germain L. (1931). Faune n° 22 Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. vol. II. Faune de France, volume 22, 520 p. 390 fig. PDF
• Germain L. (1931). Illustrations des Faunes n° 21-22 Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. PDF