Life Sciences
Botany, The Story of Plant Life
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Julia Mcnair Wright
Botany, The Story of Plant Life, is a charming book explaining plant life. The author chose the format of a chapter for each month to discus…
The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
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Frederick Walker Mott
From the Preface: "The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On th…
Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk
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Austin L. Rand
Canadian zoologist, Austin L. Rand, takes a divergence from his scholarly works on ornithology to give us 60 entertaining sketches of bird l…
Civilization and Climate
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Ellsworth Huntington
This book presents the science of geography one step further than just the physical features of the earth's surface. The relationship betwee…
Our Feathered Friends
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Elizabeth Grinnell
This volume displays the romance of birds in beautiful prose and dialog in simple language for children and adults alike. Written by a moth…
Woodland Paths
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Winthrop Packard
American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a wandering journey into the woods, alerting us to the many inhabitants and their habitat…
Walnut Growing in Oregon
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Jacob Calvin Cooper
Although published to promote the business of walnut production, this short volume describes the current science and practice of growing wal…
Cuentos de vacaciones (narraciones pseudocientíficas) Primera serie
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Santiago Ramón Y Cajal
Ramón y Cajal explora en el terreno de ciencia ficción, con intentos de moralejas y filosofías. Su intensa preparaci&oa…
Chapters on Evolution
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Andrew Wilson
Dr. Andrew Wilson FRSE was a Scottish physiologist and zoologist and lecturer in zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Edinbu…
Zoology: The Science of Animal Life
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Ernest Ingersoll
Scientist and prolific author, Ernest Ingersoll, in this book gives as an overview of animal life. Included here are descriptions of sea li…
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 12, Mar. 23, 1881
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Various
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and s…
Through Broadland in a Breydon Punt
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Arthur Henry Patterson
Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist who, from a very early age, devoted much of his free time to observing, discovering and …
Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary
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Arthur Henry Patterson
Published in 1907 by Arthur Henry Patterson, a self-taught local naturalist, Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary was one of his defining books on…
Weather Influences
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Edwin Grant Dexter
An empirical study of the mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions. The seasonal and daily climatic changes th…
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1
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Alfred Russel Wallace
The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels…
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
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Various
The Scientific American claims to be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, have launched its first publication …
Radioisotopes and Life Processes
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Renato Baserga and Walter E. Kisieleski
This is a book in the "Understanding the Atom Series".from the Division of Technical Information, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. …
Nine Biological Lectures
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Various
Nine lectures on a variety of biological subjects delivered at The Marine Biological Laboratories of Wood's Holl in the summer session of 18…
The American Bee Journal, Vol. I, No. 1, January 1861
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Various
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…
The Banana, Its Cultivation, Distribution and Commercial Uses
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William Fawcett
Bananas are the most popular fruit in the world according to the BBC. In this book we see how this fruit that is grown in limited areas of t…