Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

The modern packing house: A complete treatise on the design, construction, equipment and operation of meat packing houses, according to present American praactice, including methods of converting by-products into commercial articles

F. W. Wilder

The modern packing house presents itself as a comprehensive technical handbook for anyone involved in the…

Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology

Sir Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology is a systematic treatise that sets out to explain the “modern changes…

The Antiquity of Man

Sir Charles Lyell

The work is a nineteenth‑century scientific treatise that sets out, in a systematic fashion, the evidence…

Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; With Directions for Their Management, Breeding, Crossing, Rearing, Feeding, and Preparation for a Profitable Market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.

Richard Lamb Allen

The work is a comprehensive agricultural manual that treats the principal domestic animals of the United…

Something about sugar: Its history, growth, manufacture and distribution

George M. Rolph

Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures

Various

Scientific American’s Supplement for the week ending March 29, 1879 presents itself as a compact,…

Coral Reefs

Charles Darwin

The work is a scientific treatise by Charles Darwin, produced from his observations during the Beagle…

Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition

Burkett, Charles William; Hill, Daniel Harvey; Stevens, Frank Lincoln

Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition is a comprehensive textbook that seeks to unite the scientific…

The sidereal messenger of Galileo Galilei: and a part of the preface to Kepler's Dioptrics containing the original account of Galileo's astronomical discoveries

Galilei, Galileo; Kepler, Johannes

The work is a nineteenth‑century translation of Galileo’s 1610 pamphlet Sidereus Nuncius together with a…

Manual of American grape-growing

U. P. Hedrick

The Manual of American Grape‑Growing is a comprehensive horticultural reference written by U. P.

The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science

Henry Alleyne Nicholson

The work presents a systematic survey of paleontology that is deliberately split into two complementary…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Geodesy" to "Geometry" Volume 11, Slice 6

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Eleventh Edition, Volume XI, Slice VI, gathers together the articles “Geodesy”…

A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public

Frank Bertram Wade

Frank B. Wade’s A Text‑Book of Precious Stones is a practical manual aimed at jewelers, gem merchants, and…

Rocks and Their Origins

Grenville A. J. Cole

This work is a concise introductory textbook on geology, aimed at readers who are not specialists but who…

Travels into North America, Volume 2 (of 3)

Pehr Kalm

Pehr Kalm’s Travels into North America, Volume 2, continues the Swedish naturalist’s detailed survey of the…

Seasoning of Wood

J. B. Wagner

Seasoning of Wood is a technical treatise by J. B. Wagner that sets out to fill a gap in early‑20th‑century…

A century of science in America: with special reference to the American Journal of Science, 1818-1918

This volume is a commemorative survey of the first hundred years of the American Journal of Science, founded…

Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture

William Saunders

The work is a systematic catalogue compiled for the United States Department of Agriculture, enumerating…

Crystals

A. E. H. Tutton

This work is a popular‑science exposition of crystallography written by A. E. H.

George Washington: Farmer Being an Account of His Home Life and Agricultural Activities

Paul Leland Haworth

Paul Leland Haworth’s work is a scholarly biography that treats George Washington not as a commander or…

The grapes of New York

U. P. Hedrick

The work is a comprehensive horticultural reference compiled by U. P.

Texas Fossils: An Amateur Collector's Handbook

William Henry Matthews

The book is a practical guide for anyone who wants to turn the curiosity of finding ancient shells, bones or…

The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms With Observations on Their Habits

Charles Darwin

The work is a scientific treatise by Charles Darwin that examines how earth‑worms shape the thin, dark layer…

Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader

William Herbert Hobbs

This work is a university‑level textbook that grew out of a series of illustrated lectures delivered each…