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The Naturalist in La PlataThe Naturalist in La PlataTHE plan I have followed in this work has been to sift and arrange the facts I have gathered concerning the habits of the animals best known to me, preserving those only, which, in my judgment, appeared worth recording. In...
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The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: PepactonThe Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton I HAVE all the more pleasure in calling my book after the title of the first chapter, "Pepacton," because this is the Indian name of my native stream. In its watershed I was born and...
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A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire DownsA Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs I an obliged to Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. for permission to make use of an article entitled "A Shepherd of the Downs," which appeared in the October and November numbers of Longmans' Magazine in...
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John James AudubonJohn James Audubon The pioneer in American ornithology was Alexander Wilson, a Scotch weaver and poet, who emigrated to this country in 1794, and began the publication of his great work upon our birds in 1808. He figured and described three hundred and twenty...
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Birds in Town and VillageBirds in Town & Village AUTHOR OF "THE PURPLE LAND," "IDLE DAYS IN PATAGONIA," "FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO," ETC. THIS book is more than a mere reprint of Birds in a Village first published in 1893. That was my first book about bird...
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Travels in AlaskaTravels in Alaska Forty years ago John Muir wrote to a friend; I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever, and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me, have not dimmed my glacial eyes, and I care...
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Sidelights on RelativitySidelights on RelativityHow does it come about that alongside of the idea of ponderable matter, which is derived by abstraction from everyday life, the physicists set the idea of the existence of another kind of matter, the ether? The explanation is probably to be...
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Tropic DaysTropic Days In my previous books the endeavour was to give exact if prosaic details of life on an island off the coast of North Queensland on which a few of the original inhabitants preserved their uncontaminated ways. Here is presented another instalment of...
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My BoyhoodMy Boyhood In the beginning, at least, Father wrote these sketches of his boyhood and early farm life as a matter of self-defense: I had made a determined attempt to write them and when I did this I was treading on what was to...
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3The agrarian measure, called caballeria, is eighteen cordels, (each cordel includes twenty-four varas) or 432 square varas; consequently, as 1 vara = 0.835m., according to Rodriguez, a caballeria...
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Species and Varieties, Their Origin by MutationSpecies and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Lectures delivered at the University of California By Hugo DeVries Professor of Botany in the University of Amsterdam Edited by Daniel Trembly MacDougal Director Department of Botanical Research Carnegie Institution of Washington Second Edition Corrected and Revised...
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My Tropic IsleMy Tropic IsleMuch of the contents of this book was published in the NORTH QUEENSLAND REGISTER, under the title of "Rural Homilies." Grateful acknowledgments are due to the Editor for his frank goodwill in the abandonment of his rights. Also am I indebted to...
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Science and Education: EssaysScience & Education: EssaysThe apology offered in the Preface to the first volume of this series for the occurrence of repetitions, is even more needful here I am afraid. But it could hardly be otherwise with speeches and essays, on the same topic, addressed...
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Vestiges of the Natural History of CreationVestiges of the Natural History of CreationIt is familiar knowledge that the earth which we inhabit is a globe of somewhat less than 8000 miles in diameter, being one of a series of eleven which revolve at different distances around the sun, and some...
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Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard JefferiesField and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard JefferiesFor permission to reprint my husband's latest Essays my sincere thanks are due to the Editors of the following publications: The Fortnightly Review. Manchester Guardian. Pall Mall Gazette. Standard. English Illustrated Magazine. Longman's Magazine. St....
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Louis Agassiz as a Teacher illustrative extracts on his method of instructionLouis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instructionIf it be asked why a teacher of English should be moved to issue this book on Agassiz, my reply might be: 'Read the Introductory Note'-for the answer is there. But doubtless the...
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2The valleys of Aragua form a narrow basin between granitic and calcareous mountains of unequal height. On the north, they are separated by the Sierra Mariara from the...
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Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and NarcoticsHygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and NarcoticsThe above are the series originally prepared (as their general title indicates) to supply the demand created by the laws for temperance instruction in public schools in the United States. They...
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The Open AirThe Open AirFor permission to collect these papers my thanks are due to the Editors of the following publications: The Standard, English Illustrated Magazine, Longman's Magazine, St. James's Gazette, Chambers's Journal, Manchester Guardian, Good Words, and Pall Mall Gazette. R.J. St. Guido ran out...
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The History of a Mouthful of BreadThe History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animalsThe volume of which the following pages are a translation, has been adopted by the University Commission at Paris among their prize books, and has reached an...
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