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Trees Worth KnowingTrees Worth KnowingOccasionally I meet a person who says: "I know nothing at all about trees." This modest disclaimer is generally sincere, but it has always turned out to be untrue. "Oh, well, that old sugar maple, I've always known that tree. We used...
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Astronomical Lore in ChaucerAstronomical Lore in ChaucerThe conspicuousness of astronomical lore in the poetry of Chaucer is due to its importance in the life of his century. In the mediaeval period, astronomy (or astrology, for the two names were used indifferently to cover the same subject) was...
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Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including ChemistryHeads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including ChemistrySituated, as I happily am, in the neighbourhood of the New College at Hackney, an institution that does honour to the Dissenters, an institution open to all persons without distinction[1], and connected as...
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The Teaching of GeometryThe Teaching of GeometryA book upon the teaching of geometry may be planned in divers ways. It may be written to exploit a new theory of geometry, or a new method of presenting the science as we already have it. On the other hand,...
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Forest Trees of Illinois: How to Know ThemForest Trees of Illinois: How to Know ThemTHE white pine is found along the bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan in Lake and Cook counties and is also scattered along river bluffs in Jo Daviess, Carroll, Ogle and LaSalle counties. The only grove of this beautiful...
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Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1919Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1919The pages of the journal are especially open to western entomologists and zoologists. Notes and papers relating to western and Californian forms and conditions are particularly desired, but short morphological, systematic or economic studies...
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Jungle PeaceJungle PeaceWith three exceptions these chapters have appeared in the pages of The Atlantic Monthly, and I publish them through the kindness of the Editor, Ellery Sedgwick. "Hoatzins at Home" is adapted from a title in my Tropical Wild Life, Volume I, published by...
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A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus OsteocephalusA Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus OsteocephalusWhen we initiated a study of the herpetofauna at Santa Cecilia in Amazonian Ecuador in 1966, we were immediately confronted with many kinds of animals that we could not identify with the existing literature. Comparisons of our...
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Through Magic Glasses and Other LecturesThrough Magic Glasses and Other Lectures - A Sequel to The Fairyland of ScienceThe present volume is chiefly intended for those of my young friends who have read, and been interested in, the Fairyland of Science. It travels over a wide field, pointing out...
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Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata AgassizNatural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata AgassizThe ornate box turtle, Terrapene o. ornata Agassiz, was studied more or less continuously from September, 1953, until July, 1957. Intensive field studies were made of free-living, marked populations in two small areas of...
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A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America)A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America)Need for a comprehensive systematic review of the snakes of the genus Conophis was pointed out by Stuart (1954a, b). Since these snakes appeared to be of zoogeographic importance in the Central...
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Spencer's Philosophy of ScienceSpencer's Philosophy of Science - The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913Towards the close of 1870, while I was still in my teens, my youthful enthusiasm was fired by reading Tyndall's Discourse on The Scientific Use of the Imagination. The...
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Aspects of Reproduction and Development in the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster)Aspects of Reproduction and Development in the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster)The prairie vole is by far the most abundant mammal on the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation and on grassland areas throughout northeastern Kansas. This vole therefore affects the vegetation, perhaps more than...
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Scientific Culture, and Other EssaysScientific Culture, and Other Essays - Second Edition; with AdditionsThe essays collected in this volume, although written for special occasions without reference to each other, have all a bearing on the subject selected as the title of the volume, and are an outcome of...
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Embryology: The Beginnings of LifeEmbryology: The Beginnings of LifeWhat is Embryology, and what is its significance or interest to the ordinary educated man and woman? The answer to the question is the justification for the appearance of the following pages, and one may regard it as a somewhat...
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Condensation of DeterminantsCondensation of Determinants - Being a New and Brief Method for Computing their Arithmetical Values ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 37354 Author: Carroll, Lewis Release Date: Sep 8, 2011 Format: eBook Language: English
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The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the EvidenceThe Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence [Transcriber's Notes: Several typos have been regulated. One typo of "ancester" for "ancestor" was corrected. One instance of "salamanderlike" corrected to "salamander-like". The captions on some images give relative size. Due to differences in...
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Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne, Under the Authority of the Board of LongitudeRemarks on a Pamphlet Lately published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne, Under the Authority of the Board of LongitudeAPublication having lately been made by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne Astronomer Royal, under the Authority of the Board of Longitude, manifestly tending, by the Suppression of...
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Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomomys bottae, in ColoradoGeographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomomys bottae, in ColoradoTwo species of pocket gophers of the genus Thomomys (Family Geomyidae) occur in Colorado, Thomomys bottae (see fig. 1) in the low valleys in the south-central and southwestern parts of the state and Thomomys talpoides...
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The Whole Secret Laid Open, Or the Complete Art of Making the Chemical Fulminating ObjectsThe Whole Secret Laid Open, Or the Complete Art of Making the Chemical Fulminating Objects, - Such as the Lace, or Girt of Security, Fulminating Letters, Balls, Bombs, Garters, Cards, Spiders, Segars, Chairs, Drawers, Boots, Shoes, &c. &c. That Chemistry is one of the...
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