Life Sciences

Notes of An East Coast Naturalist

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Arthur Henry Patterson


Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist with an immeasurable knowledge and perspicacity of the Broadland region’s flora and faun…

Wildwood Ways

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Winthrop Packard


American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a journey among the wild woods and ponds alerting us to their many inhabitants. He points…

Man and Nature on the Broads

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Arthur Henry Patterson


From its man-made origins as a consequence of medieval peat excavations, the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk have evolved into a natural ecosy…

Amphibians and Reptiles in Captivity

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Robert N Bader, Donald J Coxwell and Thomas R. Johnson


In recent years the number of people interested in keeping amphibians and reptiles in captivity has grown rapidly. All too often, these same…

The psychic life of micro-organisms : a study in experimental psychology

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Alfred Binet


Described by Binet as a branch of psychology little known, he endeavoured in the following essay upon Micro-organisms, to show that psycholo…

The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song

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Frederick Walker Mott


From the Preface: "The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On th…

Malaria in Greek History

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William Henry Samuel Jones


This book is an attempt to correct and develop the theory proposed tentatively in the little work Malaria. Put briefly, this theory is as fo…

Wood Wanderings

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Winthrop Packard


American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a wandering journey into the woods alerting us to the many inhabitants and their habitat.…

Botany, The Story of Plant Life

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Julia Mcnair Wright


Botany, The Story of Plant Life, is a charming book explaining plant life. The author chose the format of a chapter for each month to discus…

Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk

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Austin L. Rand


Canadian zoologist, Austin L. Rand, takes a divergence from his scholarly works on ornithology to give us 60 entertaining sketches of bird l…

Walnut Growing in Oregon

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Jacob Calvin Cooper


Although published to promote the business of walnut production, this short volume describes the current science and practice of growing wal…

Civilization and Climate

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Ellsworth Huntington


This book presents the science of geography one step further than just the physical features of the earth's surface. The relationship betwee…

Woodland Paths

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Winthrop Packard


American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a wandering journey into the woods, alerting us to the many inhabitants and their habitat…

Our Feathered Friends

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Elizabeth Grinnell


This volume displays the romance of birds in beautiful prose and dialog in simple language for children and adults alike. Written by a moth…

Cuentos de vacaciones (narraciones pseudocientíficas) Primera serie

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Santiago Ramón Y Cajal


Ramón y Cajal explora en el terreno de ciencia ficción, con intentos de moralejas y filosofías. Su intensa preparaci&oa…

Chapters on Evolution

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Andrew Wilson


Dr. Andrew Wilson FRSE was a Scottish physiologist and zoologist and lecturer in zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Edinbu…

The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 12, Mar. 23, 1881

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The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and s…

Through Broadland in a Breydon Punt

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Arthur Henry Patterson


Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist who, from a very early age, devoted much of his free time to observing, discovering and …

Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary

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Arthur Henry Patterson


Published in 1907 by Arthur Henry Patterson, a self-taught local naturalist, Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary was one of his defining books on…

Weather Influences

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Edwin Grant Dexter


An empirical study of the mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions. The seasonal and daily climatic changes th…

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