Science Books
Animal Life in Field and Garden
Jean-Henri FabreThe other twelve will come some day, my boy; at present you have the right number of teeth for a child of your age. They do not all come at one time, but one after another. We begin with twenty, and n..
The Life of the Caterpillar
Jean-Henri FabreNovember arrives, however, bringing cold weather; the time has come to build the stout winter tabernacle. High up in the pine the tip of a bough is chosen, with suitably close-packed and convergent le..
Irritability - A Physiological Analysis
Max VerwornThe lectures on irritability here published were held at the University of Yale in October, 1911. The physiologist, the zoölogist, the botanist, the psychologist, the pathologist, have to deal, d..
Subject to Vanity
Margaret BensonWe know very little more than she did about it, we know just the bare fact that it always will be so, but why it should be so we know no more than she. Who understands the miracle by which an utterly ..
The Strange Adventures of a Pebble
Hallam HawksworthThe relation of this book to the formal study of physiography or geology in the schools will be apparent. The classified and exhaustive treatment of the text-book, while so admirably adapted to organi..
Comet Lore - Halley's Comet in History and Astronomy
Edwin EmersonThe great divines of the Church of England,—from Cranmer, Bishop Latimer, Archbishops Spottiswoode and Bramhall, Bishop Jeremy Taylor, down to our own times, clearly preached the doctrine that Comets ..
The Life of the Weevil
J. Henri FabreI have gathered into this volume the essays on Weevils contained in the Souvenirs entomologiques, lest I should swell unduly the number of volumes devoted to Beetles, of which there will be three in a..
The Mason-Wasps
Jean-Henri FabreFor reasons which will be easily apparent to the reader, I have reprinted the chapter called Instinct and Discernment, which was included in Bramble-bees and Others, and that on the Volucella, which, ..