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The Last Link: Our Present Knowledge of the Descent of ManThe Last Link: Our Present Knowledge of the Descent of ManThe address I delivered on August 26 at the Fourth International Congress of Zoology at Cambridge, 'On our Present Knowledge of the Descent of Man,' has, I find, from the high significance of the...
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The Other Side of Evolution: Its Effects and FallacyThe Other Side of Evolution: Its Effects and FallacyThe doctrine of Evolution as it is now becoming current in popular literature is one-tenth bad Science and nine-tenths bad Philosophy. Darwin was not strictly an Evolutionist, and rarely used the word. He endeavored simply to...
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Natural HistoryNatural History - Or, Uncle Philip's Conversations with the Children about Tools and Trades among Inferior AnimalsThe author of the following book avails himself of the opportunity afforded by its publication, to address a word to those who sustain the delightful and responsible relation...
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Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916On a calm summer evening we were seated together on our terrace. On the preceding day, one who hardly knew my husband had come to ask him for information concerning his life, with the object of writing his biography. We...
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Fresh FieldsFresh FieldsNew Riverside Edition. 9 vols. limited to 1000 sets. With etched frontispieces and engraved half titles. Sold in sets only. Cloth, gilt top, $13.50; cloth, paper label, untrimmed, $13.50; half calf, gilt top, $27.00. The first whiff we got of transatlantic nature was...
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The Making of SpeciesThe Making of SpeciesPost-Darwinian books on evolution fall naturally into four classes. I. Those which preach Wallaceism, as, for example, Wallaces Darwinism, Poultons Essays on Evolution, and the voluminous works of Weismann. II. Those advocating Lamarckism. Copes Factors of Evolution and the writings of...
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The Origin of VertebratesThe Origin of VertebratesM.A., M.D. (CANTAB.), LL.D. (EDIN. AND McGILL UNIV.); F.R.S.; FELLOW OF TRINITY HALL AND UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN PHYSIOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE; HONORARY FELLOW OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL MILITARY ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, ST. PETERSBURG, ETC. Giant...
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The Sea-beach at Ebb-tideThe Sea-beach at Ebb-tide - A Guide to the Study of the Seaweeds and the Lower Animal Life Found Between Tide-marksThe sea-shore, with its stretches of sandy beach and rocks, seems, at first sight, nothing but a barren and uninteresting waste, merely the natural...
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Alive in the Jungle: A Story for the YoungAlive in the Jungle: A Story for the YoungNight was brooding over the wide and swampy Bengal plain. The moon had sunk low in the west, and was hiding behind a bank of threatening clouds. Darkness and shadow covered the sleeping world around. But...
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Cruise of the 'Alert'Cruise of the 'Alert' - Four Years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene Waters (1878-82)In the summer of 1878 it was decided by the Lords of the Admiralty to equip a vessel for the threefold purpose of continuing the survey of the Straits of Magellan,...
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The Kangaroo Hunters Or, Adventures in the BushThe Kangaroo Hunters; Or, Adventures in the BushThe rapid spread of education creates a continual demand for new books, of a character to gratify the taste of the young, and at the same time to satisfy the scruples of their instructors. The restless, inquiring...
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The Desert WorldThe Desert WorldEvery attempt has been made to replicate the original book as printed. Some typographical errors have been corrected. A list follows the etext. No attempt has been made to correct or normalize printed botanical names. The footnotes have all been moved to...
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Through the Heart of PatagoniaThrough the Heart of PatagoniaPatagonia is a country about which little is known to the world in general, books dealing with it being few and far between, while the aspect of that quaint tail of South America and its wild denizens has practically never...
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The Perambulations of a Bee and a ButterflyThe Perambulations of a Bee and a Butterfly, - In which are delineated those smaller traits of character which escape the observation of larger spectators.The flattering pictures of men and manners, which are drawn in most of the present publications for youth, can alone...
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American WeaselsAmerican WeaselsThe weasel's agility and speed take it in and out of retreats, over obstacles and across open places in amazingly rapid fashion and are responsible for the animal's actions being described as "quick as a flash." The common long-tailed weasel of the United...
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Lotgevallen van een jeugdigen natuuronderzoekerLotgevallen van een jeugdigen natuuronderzoekerDe tekst in dit bestand wordt weergegeven in de originele, verouderde spelling. Er is geen poging gedaan de tekst te moderniseren. Afgebroken woorden aan het einde van de regel zijn stilzwijgend hersteld. Overduidelijke druk- en spelfouten in het origineel zijn...
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Cornell Nature-Study LeafletsCornell Nature-Study Leaflets - Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904Images may not appear in the raw html text in the same place...
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The Sea ShoreThe Sea ShoreTo sea-side naturalists it must be a matter of great surprise that of the inhabitants of our coast towns and villages, and of the pleasure-seekers that swarm on various parts of the coast during the holiday season, so few take a real...
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The Sea (La Mer)The Sea (La Mer)'The Sea' is another of M. Michelet's dreamy volumes,half science, half fancy, with a blending in both of sensuous suggestion. M. Michelet takes the seas of the world in his hands, manipulates them, invokes their monsters, assembles all their finny droves,...
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Subspeciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordiiSubspeciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii - KU. Vol 1 No 23The geographic range of the kangaroo rats, genus Dipodomys, extends from southern Canada south to the southern limits of the Mexican Tableland and from the Pacific Coast east to the eastern limits...
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