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Field, Forest and Farm Things interesting to young nature-lovers, including some matters of moment to gardeners and fruit-growers

Jean-Henri Fabre

The work is a broad‑ranging natural‑history essay by the French entomologist Jean‑Henri Fabre, in which he…

A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2)

David Starr Jordan

David Starr Jordan’s A Guide to the Study of Fishes is a comprehensive technical treatise that aims to cover…

The Vertebrate Skeleton

Sidney H. Reynolds

Sidney H. Reynolds’s The Vertebrate Skeleton is a comprehensive scientific treatise that maps the anatomy of…

Argentine Ornithology, Volume 2 (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic.

Sclater, Philip Lutley; Hudson, W. H.

The work is a two‑volume ornithological catalogue that aims to list every bird species recorded from the…

The works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4): Separate memoirs

Francis M. Balfour

The volume is a memorial collection that gathers Francis Maitland Balfour’s scattered scientific papers, his…

Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley’s Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature is a scholarly treatise that surveys the early…

The Life of the Bee

Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Life of the Bee is not a practical manual for beekeepers nor a scientific monograph…

Special report on diseases of cattle

United States. Bureau of Animal Industry; Atkinson, V. T. (Vickers T.); Dickson, Dr. (William); Eichhorn, A. (Adolph); Hickman, Richard W. (Richard West); Law, James; Lowe, (Dr.) (William Herbert); Marsh, C. Dwight (Charles Dwight); Mohler, John R. (John Robbins); Murray, A. J. (Alexander James); Pearson, Leonard; Ransom, Brayton Howard; Trumbower, M. R. (Milton R.); Woodward, Dr.

This work is a government‑issued technical manual produced by the United States Bureau of Animal Industry in…

Insect life: Souvenirs of a naturalist

Jean-Henri Fabre

This work is a modest‑sized introduction to the observations of Jean‑Henri Fabre, the French naturalist who…

An Australian Bird Book: A Pocket Book for Field Use

John Albert Leach

An Australian Bird Book: A Pocket Book for Field Use is a compact guide intended for naturalists and…

Intelligence in Plants and Animals Being a New Edition of the Author's Privately Issued "Soul and Immortality."

Thomas G. Gentry

Thomas G. Gentry’s work is a sweeping synthesis of natural history, psychology, and theology, presented as a…

The Nature of Animal Light

E. Newton Harvey

Harvey’s The Nature of Animal Light is a scholarly monograph that treats bioluminescence as a problem of…

Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 1 (of 5)

James Law

The work is a comprehensive textbook of veterinary medicine written by James Law, Director of the New York…

New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera)

G. V. Hudson

The book is a scholarly guide to New Zealand’s native macro‑Lepidoptera, written by George Vernon Hudson, a…

A Journey in Brazil

Agassiz, Louis; Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary

The work is a scientific travelogue by Louis Agassiz and his wife Elizabeth, chronicling an 1865 expedition…

Insect Architecture

James Rennie

The work is a systematic survey of the myriad ways insects construct shelters, nests, and other structures,…

The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants

Sir John William Dawson

John William Dawson’s The Chain of Life in Geological Time is a scholarly survey that seeks to map the…

A History of Science — Volume 2

Williams, Henry Smith; Williams, Edward Huntington

This work is a scholarly survey of scientific development from the waning of the Roman world in the fifth…

The History of Creation, Vol. 2 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes

Ernst Haeckel

The History of Creation, Vol. II is Ernst Haeckel’s sweeping synthesis of evolutionary theory as it stood in…

Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature

J. G. Wood

Nature’s Teachings is a systematic survey that argues every human invention has a natural counterpart,…

An Introduction to the History of Science

Walter Libby

Walter Libby’s An Introduction to the History of Science is a concise survey that seeks to show how…

The useful trees of northern Nigeria

Hugh Vandervaes Lely

The work is a practical guide to the trees of northern Nigeria’s savannah forests, compiled by Hugh…

The Honey-Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology and Management

Edward Bevan

The Honey‑Bee is a nineteenth‑century treatise that blends natural history, physiology and practical…

The Natural History of the Tea-Tree, with Observations on the Medical Qualities of Tea, and on the Effects of Tea-Drinking

John Coakley Lettsom

The work is a scholarly treatise on the tea‑tree, first issued in 1772 and re‑issued in 1799 by the physician…