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A Brief History of Forestry

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Bernhard Eduard Fernow


An accessible, comprehensive summary of the science and art of forestry, from its ancient roots to its 20th century techniques (many of whic…

Seed-Babies

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Margaret Warner Morley


Seed Babies piques the child's interest about how seeds grow. It provides interesting information about seeds in a conversational style bet…

The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 7: Anthropology & Medicine

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler


Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The seventh volume is on Anthropology written by the editor himself and on Medi…

The Chemistry of Cookery

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W. Mattieu Williams


This book, written in the late 1800s, is a book of chemistry that explains the whys and hows of cooking to trained chefs and laymen alike. T…

Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies

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David Todd


The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet ea…

A Florida Sketch-Book

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Bradford Torrey


This is a series of late-19th Century essays about Florida's flora & fauna written by a Massachusetts-based naturalist. (Summary by Bell…

Stories of Starland

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Mary Proctor


Henry asks his sister Mary about the sky. She tells him all about the Sun, the Planets, the Moon, Comets and Meteors, and Stars. Mary tells …

An Elementary Study of Insects

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Leonard Haseman


An overview of notable insect groups intended for the young reader. Focus is on economically important insects. (Summary by Jeffery Smith)

Little Wanderers

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Margaret Warner Morley


This book discusses a great variety of plants and their seeds in a simple, yet interesting way that children will enjoy. As the books says, …

Hereditary Genius

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Sir Francis Galton


A biographical summary of the pre-eminent men of Britain grouped by profession. The extensive survey draws from information including colleg…

“The Flu”: A Brief History of Influenza in U. S. America, Europe, Hawaii

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A. Mouritz


PREFACEThis Booklet has been written and compiled for the use of any student or layman who seeks concise and clear information on the histor…

Marvels of Modern Science

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Paul Severing


The purpose of this little book is to give a general idea of a few of the great achievements of our time. For instance, the flying machine i…

The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II)

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Roald Amundsen


Volume II of Roald Amundsen's The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers in the tiny sloop Gjöa are the first to ma…

Mushrooms and Toadstools (Third Edition)

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Worthington George Smith


This is a useful, but not comprehensive description of both edible and poisonous fungi found in Great Britain. Although the book is well ill…

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 2

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Pliny the Elder and John S. White


The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 3

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Pliny the Elder


The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …

Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, and Others

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Jeannette Augustus Marks and Julia Moody


These short stories about crickets, ants, bees, beetles and other little busybodies are intended by the two authors to show their children t…

Stories of the Cave People

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Mary Marcy


"In this little book I have sought, in a series of stories or sketches, to present only the first steps in human progress. Man has rise…

Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development

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Sir Francis Galton


Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …

A Theory of Monads: Outlines of the Philosophy of the Principle of Relativity

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Herbert Wildon Carr


Since the publication of this book, a little more than a year ago, the interest in Einstein and the principle of relativity has very greatly…

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