Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

The Subterranean World

G. Hartwig

The Subterranean World is a comprehensive scientific survey of the hidden realms beneath the Earth, written…

American Rural Highways

T. R. Agg

American Rural Highways is a nonfiction treatise by Thomas R.

The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related

John Tyndall

The work is a hybrid of travelogue, scientific essay, and personal memoir, written by the…

Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed

Ernest Spon

Ernest Spon’s work is a technical treatise on the art and science of locating, sinking, and boring wells,…

Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler’s Outlines of the Earth’s History is a concise, introductory textbook in physical…

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898 Volume LIV, No. 2, December 1898

Various

Appletons’ Popular Science Monthly, December 1898, is a single‑issue scholarly periodical that blends…

A Brief History of Forestry. In Europe, the United States and Other Countries

B. E. Fernow

Fernow’s work is a concise, lecture‑derived survey of forestry’s evolution across Europe, the United States…

Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11

Buchanan’s Journal of Man, December 1887, Volume 1, Number 11 is a periodical that blends scientific…

A Century's Progress in Astronomy

Hector Macpherson

This work is a scholarly survey of a century of astronomical achievement, framed as a tribute to William…

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 Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.

Anonymous

The work is a nineteenth‑century catechism of natural philosophy, presenting familiar phenomena, dew, rain,…

The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside

Various

The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2 (January 12, 1884) is a weekly agricultural journal that gathers a variety…

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…

Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot

Philip Henry Gosse

Philip Henry Gosse’s Omphalos is a nineteenth‑century scientific treatise that sets out to “untie the…

Aërial Navigation A Popular Treatise on the Growth of Air Craft and on Aëronautical Meteorology

Albert Francis Zahm

Aërial Navigation is a comprehensive, popular‑science survey of the development of aeronautics up to 1911,…

My experiments with volcanoes

Thomas Augustus Jaggar

The work is an autobiographical memoir of Thomas A. Jaggar, a pioneering volcanologist who spent six decades…

A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products

F. B. Wright

This work is a practical handbook on producing industrial alcohol from farm products, written by Frederic B.

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…

The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851

Various

The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, dated November 1 1851, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that…

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…

The Book of the Ocean

Ernest Ingersoll

The Book of the Ocean is a sweeping survey of the world’s seas, beginning with a geographic framing that…

The Strange Adventures of a Pebble

Hallam Hawksworth

The book is a juvenile‑focused work of natural‑science storytelling that treats geology and physical…

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…

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…