Zoology

Armchair adventurers can set sail for the remote Galapagos Islands and learn about the strange and unique animals that live there. The Galapagos Islands are a chain of volcanic islands located on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean. The isolated location...

The Life and Love of the InsectThe author of these essays was born at Srignan, in Provence, in the year 1823, and was long in coming to his own. His birthday, indeed, is now celebrated annually (Henri Fabre is still alive) at both Srignan...

The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle [vol. 1 of 5]: Fossil mammaliaMr. Owen having undertaken the description of the fossil remains of the Mammalia, which were collected during the voyage of the Beagle, and which are now deposited in the Museum of...

Cassell's book of birds; vol. 4THE PLOVERS (Charadrii):The Golden PloverThe Ringed PloverThe Dotted PloversThe Dotted Plover, or DotterelThe Shore PloversThe Little Shore Plover, or Little Ringed PloverThe Lapwings, or PeewitsThe Peewit, or LapwingThe Spur-winged LapwingThe Lappeted PeewitThe TurnstoneThe Pied Oyster-catcher, or Sea Pie 15-29...

Aus dem Leben der InsektenProduced by: Peter Becker, Reiner Ruf, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (The digitized holdings of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin are available to all interested parties worldwide free of charge for non-commercial use.) Der vorliegende Text wurde anhand...

Birds 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...

Uit de dierenwereld van het water - Schetsen in woord en beeld van het lever der lagere diersoortenDe fraaie platen van Dr. Aug. Schleyer: Aus der Tiefen der Gewsser geven zulk een uitmuntend beeld van de lagere dierenwereld uit het water, dat ik niet...

Happy: The life of a beeYears ago, banished into the far Rio Grande region, I became a keeper of bees. As a child I had loved them, even caressed them, and many a time have I held them one and a hundred at once...

The life story of a squirrelIt was a perfect June morning, not a breath stirring, and the sun fairly baking down till the whole air was full of the hot resinous scent of pine-needles; but, warm as it was, I was shivering as I...

Insect life: Souvenirs of a naturalistThis little volume introduces the work of a great French naturalist to the reader of English. Raumur, another Frenchman, is the greatest naturalist devoting himself to the observation of insects the world has yet seen. His six quarto volumesMmoires...

Revue de l'histoire de la Licorne, par un naturaliste de MontpellierLorsque vous me demandtes dernirement ce que je pensais de la licorne, vous voultes bien me laisser le loisir de faire quelques recherches ce sujet, pour appuyer une ngation, qui parut vous surprendre d'abord:...

A Hermit's Wild Friends; or, Eighteen Years in the WoodsThat the cow-bunting watches over its young, assists the foster parents in providing food, and gradually assumes full care of the young bird, and takes it to the pasture to associate with its kind; that...

Apes and Monkeys: Their Life and LanguageMr. Garners book needs no introduction. By this I mean that I think that no intelligent person will open into it without wishing to read more and more. The book is its own introduction. I write these lines,...

The honey-bee: its nature, homes and productsIn these days of intense business-pressure, it is a good thing for men to cultivate hobbies. We say this, notwithstanding the fact that men with hobbies are likely to become bores, from thinking and talking too incessantly of...

Water Reptiles of the Past and PresentIn most persons the word reptile incites only feelings of disgust and abhorrence; to many it means a serpent, a cold, gliding, treacherous, and venomous creature shunning sunlight and always ready to poison. Our repugnance to serpents is...

The 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...

More BeetlesThis, if we count The Life of the Weevil as the third, is the fourth and last volume on Beetles in the Collected English Edition of Fabres entomological works. The first was entitled The Sacred Beetle and Others; the second The Glow-worm and...

The Hunting WaspsHenri Fabres essays on Wasps will fill three volumes in all, of which this is the first. The others will be entitled The Mason-Wasps and More Hunting Wasps. The former will include the chapters on the Common or Social Wasp. The first...

Life Among the ButterfliesMany ancient and mediaeval writers dealt with butterflies, but the first descriptions of American species are found in the works of Linnaeus, the great Swedish naturalist who wrote about 1750, and invented the system upon which all modern classification is based....

Fabre's Book of InsectsA goatherd, perhaps, amuses himself by counting little pebbles and doing sums with them. He becomes an astoundingly quick reckoner, and in the end is a professor of mathematics. Another boy, at an age when most of us care only for...