Natural History
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Through a pocket lensThrough a pocket lensThe object of this little book is to show how much may be seen with an ordinary pocket lens, and with a simple microscope; and, as far as possible, to dispel the idea, far too common, especially among beginners, that no...
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A naturalist in MadagascarA naturalist in Madagascar - A record of observation, experiences, and impressions made during a period of over fifty years' intimate association with the natives and study of the animal & vegetable life of the islandTHE title of this book may perhaps be considered...
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The case against evolutionThe case against evolutionAs a result of recent investigations on the sex chromosomes and chromosome numbers in mammals, Theophilus S. Painter reaches the conclusions that polyploidy cannot be invoked to explain evolution within this class. After giving a table of chromosome numbers for 7...
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Birds & their nestsBirds and their nestsThe birds in these pictures of ours have all nests, which is as it should be; for how could the bird rear its young without its little home and soft little bed, any more than children could be comfortably brought up...
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From North Pole to Equator: Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many LandsFrom North Pole to Equator: Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many LandsTO THE GERMAN EDITION. Six years have passed since the grave at Renthendorf closed over the remains of my esteemed father, whose deathall too earlywas as great a loss to Science...
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Field, Forest and FarmField, Forest and Farm - Things interesting to young nature-lovers, including some matters of moment to gardeners and fruit-growersBread is made of flour, he began, and flour is wheat reduced to powder under the millstone. What an interesting mechanism that is, the flour-mill, driven...
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The Lone SwallowsThe Lone SwallowsMost of the papers in this volume are published for the first time. A few have appeared in The Daily Express, The London Evening News, The Field, The Saturday Review, The Outlook, The English Review, and The Wide World Magazine. I am...
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The Foot-prints of the Creator: or, The Asterolepis of StromnessThe Foot-prints of the Creator: or, The Asterolepis of StromnessWhen I asked him how this earth could have been repeopled if ever it had undergone the same fate it was threatened with by the comet of 1680, he answered,that required the power of a...
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The Principles of Biology, Volume 2 (of 2)The Principles of Biology, Volume 2 (of 2)The proof sheets of this volume, like those of the last volume, have been looked through by Dr. Hooker and Prof. Huxley; and I have, as before, to thank them for their valuable criticisms, and for the...
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The Strangest Things in the World: A Book About Extraordinary Manifestations of NatureThe Strangest Things in the World: A Book About Extraordinary Manifestations of NatureLife has invaded nearly every crack and crevasse of the world during the billion years since it left its first traces on this planet. It has adjusted itself to all extremes of...
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LenteLenteHet was op een voorjaarsavond, gezellig tegenover elkander zittende, dat wij aan den praat raakten over ons album No. 3, dat toen pas was uitgekomen en in slechts enkele weken zijne bestemming gevonden had door gansch het land.Zoon album met de plaatjes, teksten, en...
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Van de Noordpool naar den Aequator: Blikken in het groote rijk der scheppingVan de Noordpool naar den Aequator: Blikken in het groote rijk der scheppingToen nu wijlen Dr. A.E. Brehm in de voornaamste steden van Duitschland zijne voordrachten hield over de Vogelbergen van Lapland en de boomlooze Toendra van Siberi, over de maagdelijke wouden van Afrika...
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An Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal LifeAn Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal Life ... The spacious earth, And all the teeming regions of the world, Hold not an object to the curious flight Of knowledge, half so tempting, or so fair, As man to man. AKENSIDE. Actuated by...
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A Gamekeeper's Note-bookA Gamekeeper's Note-bookA gamekeeper's notes are written for the most part on the tablets of his mind. He is a man of silence; yet he is ever ready to unlock the casket of his memories if old friends, and sympathetic, are about him. We...
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Two Years Among New Guinea CannibalsTwo Years Among New Guinea Cannibals - A Naturalist’s Sojourn Among the Aborigines of Unexplored New GuineaThis record of two years scientific work in the only country of the globe that has still escaped exploration purposely avoids the dry detail of a Natural History...
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Irritability: A Physiological Analysis of the General Effect of Stimuli in Living SubstanceIrritability: A Physiological Analysis of the General Effect of Stimuli in Living SubstanceThe lectures on irritability here published were held at the University of Yale in October, 1911. When the authorities of that University honored me by an invitation to give a course of...
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Animal Life in Field and GardenAnimal Life in Field and GardenIn these talks that we shall have together, said Uncle Paul, as he sat with his nephews one evening in May under the big elder tree in the garden, I propose to designate as friends those forms of animal...
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Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years’ Travels in Australia and of Camp Life With the Aborigines of QueenslandAmong Cannibals: An Account of Four Years’ Travels in Australia and of Camp Life With the Aborigines of QueenslandIn the year 1880 I undertook an expedition to Australia, partly at the expense of the University of Christiania, with the object of making collections for...
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Antony van Leeuwenhoek, de ontdekker der infusorien, 1675-1875Antony van Leeuwenhoek, de ontdekker der infusorien, 1675-1875Op den 24sten September van het jaar 1874, bij gelegenheid der 47ste Vergadering van Duitsche natuuronderzoekers en artsen te Gratz ving Dr. Ferdinand Cohn, Hoogleeraar aan de Universiteit te Breslau zijn redevoering Over de onzichtbare vijanden in...
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Literary Pilgrimages of a NaturalistLiterary Pilgrimages of a NaturalistDown in Marshfield early morning brings to the roadside troops of blue-eyed chicory blooms, shy memories of fair Pilgrim children who once trod these ways. They do not stay long with the wanderer, these early morning blooms. The turmoil and...
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