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I.D. 1177 Geology of Mesopotamia and its borderlands/ prepared on behalf of the Admiralty.

...Initially published for governmental use only, a prefaratory note states that this paper was prepared to summarize the geology of Mesopotamia and its borderlands, with particular attention to its mineral resources and likely industrial...

[Letter to Sir Joseph Banks,] Latikia, 7th July, 1803, [i.e. 1813].

Stanhope, Hester, Lady

...A long, informative letter to Sir Joseph Banks offering her expertise on Bedouin lifestyle gained from her notorious expedition into the desert with a tribe of Bedouin Arabs in January 1813, and detailing her experiences on this trip...

The spiritual physick of Rhazes/ translated from the Arabic by Arthur J. Arberry, Litt.D., F.B.A., Sir Thomas Adams's professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge.

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī

...First edition of Arthur J. Arberry's translation of al-Rāzī's al-Tibb al-rūḥānī (Spiritual Medicine). The physician and philosopher al-Rāzī, one of the greatest medical authorities of the Middle Ages, dedicated this book, like his...

A survey of the fauna of Iraq: mammals, birds, reptiles, etc. made by members of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force D 1915-1919.

...First and only edition of a collection of papers on Iraqi zoology by members of the British Expeditionary Forces in Mesopotamia and Persia, based on specimens collected during the First World War and first published in the Journal...

A treatise on the small-pox and measles/ by Abú Becr Mohammed Ibn Zacaríyá Ar-Rází (commonly called Rhazes), translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill M.D.

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī

...Rāzī’s Kitāb fī 'l-Jadarī wa-'l-ḥaṣba, or Liber de variolis et morbillis, is considered the oldest and most important original work on smallpox and measles, and a distinct original contribution to medicine by the Arabians. A pioneering...

The geology and oil measures of South-West Persia/ by R.K. Richardson, A.R.C.Sc. (Member).

R. K. Richardson

...Reprinted from the Journal of the Institution of Petroleum Technologists, Vol. 10, no. 43, June 1924, this article focusses on a "long belt of petroliferous territory" to the east and north-west of the Persian Gulf. It provides a broad...

Analecta medico-historica. 2. Safavid surgery

Cyril Elgood

...Cyril Elgood (1893-1970) served as physician to the British Embassy in Tehran, and was a keen student of the language, culture and history of Iran. He begins this short work by reviewing three major accounts of medical history written...

A treatise on the geology of Armenia/ by Felix Oswald, B.A., D.Sc., thesis accepted by the University of London for the degree of Doctor of Science, in two parts, I. Geological results of a journey by the Author through Turkish Armenia, II. The Geological record of Armenia.

Felix Oswald

...A doctoral thesis submitted to the University of London for the degree of Doctor of Science. An analysis of the geology of Armenia, comprising findings of previous observers' research and the author's own research, the fieldwork being...

On the geobotanical structure of Iran

Michael Zohary

...Paper by Michael Zohary on the vegetal landscape and plant distribution of Iran, based partly on the author's field research. Supplement to Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel, Section D. Botany, Volume 11D, March 1963, author...