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Jellyfish, Starfish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous SystemsJelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous SystemsAmong the most beautiful, as well as the most common, of the marine animals which are to be met with upon our coasts are the jelly-fish and the star-fish. Scarcely any one is so...
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The Snakes of EuropeThe Snakes of EuropeThere is no work in the English language dealing with the Reptiles of Europe. I have therefore endeavoured to supply this desideratum, so far as the Snakes are concerned, by drawing up in a concise form an account of what is...
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Studies in the History and Method of Science, vol. 1 (of 2)Studies in the History and Method of Science, vol. 1 (of 2)The record of men and of movements, History teaches us the growth and development of ideas. Our civilization is the final expression of the two great master-thoughts of the race. Seeking an explanation...
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Bird Guide: Water Birds, Game Birds, and Birds of Prey East of the RockiesBird Guide: Water Birds, Game Birds, and Birds of Prey East of the RockiesThe study of the birds included in this book is much more difficult than that of the small land birds. Many of the birds are large; some are very rare; all...
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Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish ThemOur Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them - A Selection of Thirty Native Food Varieties Easily Recognizable by their Marked Individualities, with Simple Rules for the Identification of Poisonous Species A prominent botanical authority connected with one of our universities, upon...
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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4 - ZoologyIn the course of a recent investigation into the nature of the singular extinct reptile, Stagonolepis, I was led to inquire somewhat minutely into the character of the exoskeleton, or dermal armour,...
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The Mentor: American Naturalists, Vol. 7, Num. 9, Serial No. 181, June 15, 1919The Mentor: American Naturalists, Vol. 7, Num. 9, Serial No. 181, June 15, 1919There are those who look at Nature from the standpoint of conventional and artificial lifefrom parlor windows and through gilt-edged poemsthe sentimentalists. At the other extreme are those who do not...
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Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1900Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1900 - Vol. 56, Nov. 1899 to April, 1900The experiments which have been intentionally or accidentally made in transplanting organic species from the countries in which they have been developed to others of diverse soil, climate, and inhabitants are...
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) 2nd edManual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) 2nd ed.In this volume I have tried to bring into convenient form for the use of students the information concerning the trees of North America which has been gathered at the Arnold Arboretum during...
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Physique de l'Amour: Essai sur l'instinct sexuelPhysique de l'Amour: Essai sur l'instinct sexuelCe livre, qui n'est qu'un essai, parce que la matire de son ide est immense, reprsente pourtant une ambition: on voudrait agrandir la psychologie gnrale de l'amour, la faire commencer au commencement mme de l'activit mle et femelle,...
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The Natural Philosophy of LoveThe Natural Philosophy of Love1. Invertebrates: formation of the male.Primitivity of the female.Minuscule males: the bonellie.Regression of the male into the male organ: the rirripedes.Generality of sexual dimorphism.Superiority of the female in most insect species.Exceptions.Numeric dimorphism.Female hymenoptera.Multiplicity of her activities.Male's purely sexual rle.Dimorphism of...
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Glimpses of Indian BirdsGlimpses of Indian BirdsIn the brief sketches that follow I find occasion repeatedly to attack the prevalent theories of protective colouration, because it is impossible for the naturalist who uses his eyes to accept these theories. Most of these hypotheses were advanced by field...
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United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Biological Survey, Bulletin No. 20Coyotes in Their Economic RelationsSir: I have the honor to transmit herewith for publication as Bulletin No. 20 of the Biological Survey a report on Coyotes in their Economic Relations, prepared by David E. Lantz, assistant. The subject is of immediate importance to the...
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Birds' Nests, Eggs and Egg-CollectingBirds' Nests, Eggs and Egg-CollectingThe very kindly reception by the press, and a steady public appreciation, have led to this endeavour to make my little book more complete, by preparing an Enlarged Edition, including all British-breeding birds that have now any reasonable claim for...
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Makers of British Botany a collection of biographies by living botanistsMakers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanistsThe present volume represents in somewhat expanded form a course of lectures arranged by the Board of Studies in Botany of the University of London and delivered during the early part of 1911 in...
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A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2)A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) - The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc.My former volume, published by the Ray Society, treated only of the Lepadid, one family of the Cirripedia: I was induced to print it from...
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Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidæ, or ParrotsIllustrations of the Family of Psittacidæ, or Parrots - The greater part of them species hitherto unfigured, containing forty-two lithographic plates, drawings from life, and on stoneA header for each page with a plate was added to match the plate numbers in the List...
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Birds of the PlainsBirds of the PlainsIt is easy enough to write a book. The difficulty is to sell the production when it is finished. That, however, is not the authors business. Nevertheless, the labours of the writer are not over when he has completed the last...
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Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 - Vol. LV, May to October, 1899In an article on the plague in this journal, in May, 1897, the writer answered this question as follows: "Yes, there is danger; but this, being foreseen, may be easily avoided. Thorough...
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The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 4 (of 4)The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 4 (of 4) - PlatesThis book contains many abbreviations. Abbreviations of words have been expanded using the title attribute; screenreader users may wish to set their computer to read only the title attribute. Abbreviations used to identify...
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