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Popular Science Library, Volume 9Physiology: The Science of the BodyWHEN Alexander Pope wrote The proper study of mankind is man, he was thinking rather of man as a social being than as the possessor of an amazingly complex and interesting body. It is nevertheless true that to one...
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An Elementary Text-book of the MicroscopeAn Elementary Text-book of the Microscope - including a description of the methods of preparing and mounting objects, etc.THE object of this little work is to furnish an elementary course of instruction in the use of the Microscope, and on its application to the...
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International scientific series, 19Animal Parasites and MessmatesIn that great drama which we call Nature, each animal plays its especial part, and He who has adjusted and regulated everything in its due order and proportion, watches with as much care over the preservation of the most repulsive insect,...
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Inorganic Plant Poisons and StimulantsInorganic Plant Poisons and StimulantsEver since the physiological side of botany began to emerge from obscurity, the question of the relation between the nutrition and the growth of the plant has occupied a foremost position. All kinds of theories, both probable and improbable, have...
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Natural GemstonesNatural GemstonesA natural gemstone is a mineral, stone, or organic matter that can be cut and polished or otherwise treated for use as jewelry or other ornament. A precious gemstone has beauty, durability, and rarity, whereas a semiprecious gemstone has only one or two...
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Little Mitchell: The Story of a Mountain SquirrelLittle Mitchell: The Story of a Mountain SquirrelBaby Mitchell was an August squirrel. That is, he was born in the month of August. His pretty gray mother found a nice hole, high up in the crotch of a tall chestnut tree, for her babies...
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The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions In West Cornwall, IllustratedThe Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions In West Cornwall, Illustrated England's "observables"Why I delayed visiting CornwallA vision of the Land's End-Flight to St. Ives-Climate-The old town-The fishermen-Their love of children-Drowned babesThe fishing fleet going out at sunset-Old memories suggested-Jackdaws at St. IvesFeeding the birdsA...
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Field Book of Western Wild FlowersField Book of Western Wild FlowersIn this little book a very large number of the commoner wild flowers growing in the United States, west of the Rocky Mountains, are pictured and described. It is the first attempt to supply a popular field book for...
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Natural WondersNatural WondersNo small part of our fundamental knowledge concerning the world of nature has been put into shape for comprehension by children, time out of mind. The Swiss Family Robinson is half natural history, even if not always of an especially convincing kind; and...
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Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1899Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1899 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyTHE nutmeg is the spice obtained from a medium-sized evergreen tree reaching a height of from twenty-five to forty feet. This tree is dicious, that is the male flowers and...
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Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 5, May 1899Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 5, May 1899 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyTHERE is no more beautiful bird in our northern states, if there be in the whole country, than our waxwing. Many birds are more gorgeously appareled, and with many there...
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On Digestive ProteolysisOn Digestive Proteolysis - Being the Cartwright Lectures for 1894The present volume, as explained by the title, consists mainly of a reprint of the Cartwright Lectures for 1894. These lectures were originally printed in the current numbers of the Medical Record, but so many...
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Bob: The Story of Our Mocking-birdBob: The Story of Our Mocking-birdhe poet Sidney Lanier loved to swing in full-muscled walks through the fields and woods; to take the biggest bow and quiver out of the archery implements provided for himself and his brood of boys, and with them trailing...
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Grasses: A Handbook for use in the Field and LaboratoryGrasses: A Handbook for use in the Field and LaboratoryTHE following pages have been written in the hope that they may be used in the field and in the laboratory with specimens of our ordinary grasses in the hand. Most of the exercises involved...
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Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 5 [December 1902]Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 5 [December 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyOnly a very limited portion of the United States is beautified by the presence of the bright colored Hooded Oriole. The North has the richly plumaged Baltimore oriole for a short...
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Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 2 [July 1902]Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 2 [July 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyThere are two varieties of this species, the Palm or Red-poll Warbler, and the yellow palm or yellow red-poll warbler. The latter is a native of the Atlantic States and breeds...
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Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 4 [September 1902]Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 4 [September 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyIn years gone by, when large sections of the United States were covered with deeply wooded virgin forests frequented only by denizens of the wildwood, the Pileated Woodpecker was an abundant...
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Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 3 [August 1902]Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 3 [August 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyThe sun-birds bear a similar relation to the oriental tropics that the humming birds do to the warmer regions of the Western hemisphere. Both have a remarkably brilliant plumage which is...
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Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 1 [June 1902]Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 1 [June 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyMarked among its kind by no ordinary beauty of form and brilliancy of color, the Kite courses through the air with a grace and buoyancy it would be vain to rival....
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James Geikie, the Man and the GeologistJames Geikie, the Man and the GeologistThis biography of Prof. James Geikie is based upon his own letters, papers, and diaries, and upon information supplied by many of those who were closely associated with him, both during his earlier days on the Geological Survey...
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