Natural History
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The Wit of a Duck and Other PapersThe Wit of a Duck and Other PapersJohn Burroughs was born April 3, 1837, in a little farmhouse among the Catskill Mountains. He was, like most other country boys, acquainted with all the hard work of farm life and enjoyed all the pleasures of...
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The Scientific Evidences of Organic EvolutionThe Scientific Evidences of Organic EvolutionSeveral months ago I published in the Fortnightly Review a lecture, which I had previously delivered at the Philosophical Institutions of Edinburgh and Birmingham, and which bore the above title. The late Mr. Darwin thought well of the epitome...
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Under the Trees and ElsewhereUnder the Trees and ElsewhereMy study has been a dull place of late; even the open fire, which still lingers on the hearth, has failed to exorcise a certain gray and weary spirit which has somehow taken possession of the premises. As I was...
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Among the Farmyard PeopleAmong the Farmyard PeopleI want to introduce the farmyard people to you, and to have you call upon them and become better acquainted as soon as you can. Some of them are working for us, and we surely should know them. Perhaps, too, some...
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Evolution: An Investigation and a CritiqueEvolution: An Investigation and a CritiqueI first read Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" in the library of my sainted uncle, John Schaller, at New Ulm, Minnesota, in 1892. I did not comprehend all of it then, a cause, to me, of considerable chagrin, for...
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The Andes and the Amazon Or, Across the Continent of South AmericaThe Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South AmericaRev. J.C. FLETCHER, author of "brazil and brazilians." In this day of many voyages, in the Old World and the New, it is refreshing to find an untrodden path. Central Africa has been...
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What is Darwinism?What is Darwinism?This is a question which needs an answer. Great confusion and diversity of opinion prevail as to the real views of the man whose writings have agitated the whole world, scientific and religious. If a man says he is a Darwinian, many...
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Response in the Living and Non-LivingResponse in the Living and Non-LivingI have in the present work put in a connected and a more complete form results, some of which have been published in the following Papers: These investigations were commenced in India, and I take this opportunity to express...
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Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 - The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and VIt was stated in the second paper of this series that the disposition of the Lecideaceae in an early paper of the series would show what slight changes...
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Nature Near LondonNature Near LondonIt is usually supposed to be necessary to go far into the country to find wild birds and animals in sufficient numbers to be pleasantly studied. Such was certainly my own impression till circumstances led me, for the convenience of access to...
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An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation"An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" - With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The following tractate first...
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The Story of My Boyhood and YouthThe Story of My Boyhood and YouthWhen I was a boy in Scotland I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life Ive been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately around my native town of Dunbar,...
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The Breath of LifeThe Breath of LifeAs life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in...
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A Book of Natural HistoryA Book of Natural History - Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.Every one has seen a cornfield. If you pluck up one of the innumerable wheat plants which are fixed in the soil of the field, about harvest time, you will find that it consists...
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WoodsideWoodside - or, Look, Listen, and Learn.One bright spring day, not so very long ago, three little children arrived at their grandfather's house. They had come to pay a long visit, as their parents were travelling abroad for two or three months. Now grandpapa...
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Some Summer Days in IowaSome Summer Days in IowaLike the two preceding little volumes of this series, this book seeks to show something of what Iowa has to offer to the man who loves the out-of-doors. There is nothing very unusual in it. The trees and the flowers,...
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Some Spring Days in IowaSome Spring Days in IowaA number of typographical errors have been maintained in the current version of this book. They are marked and the corrected text is shown in the popup. A list of these errors is found at the end of this book....
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Some Winter Days in IowaSome Winter Days in IowaI am glad to have the privilege, thus in advance, of looking over Mr. Lazell's delightful essays. He has surely a gift in this sort of thing. We are grateful to the man who shows us what he sees in...
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Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and FancyRound-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and FancyCome along, boys and girls! We are off on our rambles. But please do not ask me where we are going. It would delay us very much if I should postpone our start until I had drawn...
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Health and EducationHealth and EducationWhether the British race is improving or degenerating? What, if it seem probably degenerating, are the causes of so great an evil? How they can be, if not destroyed, at least arrested?These are questions worthy the attention, not of statesmen only and...
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