Science Books

The Story of Germ Life

H. W. Conn

Since the first edition of this book was published the popular idea of bacteria to which attention was drawn in the original preface has undergone considerable modification. Experimental medicine has ..

Five of Maxwell's Papers

James Clerk Maxwell

Five of Maxwell's Papers consists of On the unequal sensibility of the Foramen Centrale to light of different coloursOn the theory of compound colours with reference to mixtures of blue and yello..

Moths of the Limberlost - A Book About Limberlost Cabin

Gene Stratton-Porter

To me the Limberlost is a word with which to conjure; a spot wherein to revel. The swamp lies in north-eastern Indiana, nearly one hundred miles south of the Michigan line and ten west of the Ohio. In..

Let's Collect Rocks and Shells

Anonymous

illions of people throughout the world have found many hours of pleasure, adventure and education by collecting either rocks or shells. This booklet won't tell you everything there is to know about ro..

The Story of Electricity

John Munro

The purpose of this little book is to present the essential facts of electrical science in a popular and interesting way, as befits the scheme of the series to which it belongs. Electrical phenomena h..

Familiar Letters of Chemistry

Justus Liebig

The Letters contained in this little Volume embrace some of the most important points of the science of Chemistry, in their application to Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Agriculture, and Commerce. So..

The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom

Charles Darwin

There is weighty and abundant evidence that the flowers of most kinds of plants are constructed so as to be occasionally or habitually cross-fertilised by pollen from another flower, produced either b..

Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders

J. Traherne Moggridge

Claudius Ælianus, who lived in the time of Hadrian, gives a detailed account of the habits which he attributes to ants, from which the following is a translation: "In summer time, after harvest, while..