Science
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
Cyrus W. Field had a dream: to link the Old World of Britain and Europe to that of the New World of North America by a telegraph cable stret…
History of Farming in Ontario
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C. C. James
This is a paper on the history of farming in Ontario. It take the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888…
Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures
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Arabella B. Buckley
"The present volume is chiefly intended for those of my young friends who have read, and been interested in, The Fairyland of Science. …
The Tree-Dwellers
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Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
Katharine E. Dopp was well-known as a teacher and writer of children's textbooks at the turn of the 20th Century. She was among the first e…
La vie des abeilles
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Vie de ces insectes stupéfiants, et aussi philosophie, voire mysticisme..., l'Esprit de la Ruche ... - Summary by Christiane Jehanne
LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…
Insect Stories
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Vernon Kellogg
These 13 essays explore the fascinating world of insects all around us. Vernon Kellogg, an eminent entomologist and natural story teller, an…
The Strangest Things in the World: A Book About Extraordinary Manifestations of…
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Thomas R. Henry
"THE STRANGEST THINGS IN THE WORLD - A Book About Extraordinary Manifestations of Nature" This title sums up the wonderful line up…
The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship
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Margaret Burnham
Teenagers Peggy Prescott and her brother Roy share a love of aviation that they inherited from their late father. Mr. Prescott had always dr…
Home Geography for Primary Grades
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C. C. Long
Lessons and exercises for young children, exploring map and compass, mountains and rivers, trees and flowers, wind and rain, and more. (Summ…
Light Science for Leisure Hours
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Richard A. Proctor
In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable form—clearly and simply, but with a…
The Prospective Mother
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J. Morris Slemons
A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy. This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions …
Dinosaurs, With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
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William Diller Matthew
America has had a fascination with dinosaurs, particularly since the wild enthusiasm of Jurassic Park and its sequels. The term "dinosa…
Science in Short Chapters
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W. Mattieu Williams
This is a collection of articles written by W. Mattieu Williams on different subjects, that in his opinion "are likely to be interestin…
A Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse
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Various
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be desc…
The Extermination of the American Bison
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William T. Hornaday
The American bison (Bison bison), also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the gra…
The Elements of Ornithology
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William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Ornithology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This…