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Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
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The best time to begin to study the trees is to-day! The place to begin is right where you are, provided there is a tree near enough, for a lesson about trees will be very dull unless there is a tree to look at, to ask questions of, and to get answers from. But suppose it is winter time, and the tree is bare. Then you have a chance to see the wonderful framework of trunk and branches, the way the twigs spread apart on the outer limbs, while...
Author
Publisher
Eula Whitehouse
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This book identifies hundreds of species of wildflowers found in Texas. Flowers are listed according to family; detailed morphological descriptions, hand-colored illustrations, geographical range, and commercial, culinary, and medicinal uses are provided for each species included. [Summary based on 2d ed., published in 1948]
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This book describes more than 100 common United States birds, including their physical attributes, calls, and nesting and mating habits. Originally published in 1907, Birds Every Child Should Know is a collection of story-like descriptions of more than one hundred birds commonly found in the United States. Neltje Blanchan's detailed descriptions of birds -- their physical attributes, calls, nesting and mating habits, and other behaviors -- are nothing...
Author
Publisher
Southwestern Monuments Association
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
For each of the 100 species of Southwestern desert wildflowers included in this book, the author provides a brief physical description and discusses its geographic range and growing habits. He is also the source of each flower photograph, and gives helpful tips for flower photographers.
Author
Publisher
John Lane Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The background of this collection of sketches and stories is the country through which flowed one of the most interesting of our western rivers before its destruction as a natural waterway.
This book is not a history. It is intended as an interpretation of the life along the river that the author has come in contact with during many years of familiarity with the region. Names of places and characters have been changed for the reason that, while effort...
Author
Publisher
Appalachian Consortium Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This publication is the proceedings from a symposium on trout habitat held in 1974 at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina on trout habitat in the Southern Appalachians. Research and management issues were addressed, including challenges to trout habitats such as deforestation, fire, overgrazing, dams, mining, urban and industrial waste, road construction, and poor agricultural practices.
Author
Publisher
Baldwin & Cradock
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The execution of the Zoological drawings now published, have been to us an agreeable relaxation from severer studies; and the concise descriptions by which they are accompanied, are intended to convey, in a condensed and popular form, the partial result of more extended investigations. Species are the objects of which the whole fabric of animated nature is composed, and their respective properties must be investigated, before their natural combinations...
Author
Publisher
Baldwin & Cradock
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The execution of the Zoological drawings now published, have been to us an agreeable relaxation from severer studies; and the concise descriptions by which they are accompanied, are intended to convey, in a condensed and popular form, the partial result of more extended investigations. Species are the objects of which the whole fabric of animated nature is composed, and their respective properties must be investigated, before their natural combinations...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The execution of the Zoological drawings now published, have been to us an agreeable relaxation from severer studies; and the concise descriptions by which they are accompanied, are intended to convey, in a condensed and popular form, the partial result of more extended investigations. Species are the objects of which the whole fabric of animated nature is composed, and their respective properties must be investigated, before their natural combinations...
Author
Publisher
Baldwin & Cradock
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The termination of the first volume of the Zoological Illustrations is accomplished, and its contents will not only enable our readers to discern the nature of the work, but likewise to form a judgement, on that degree of improvement which we have introduced since its first publication, and they may safely rely on the continuation being in no respect inferior.
In commencing a work of this nature, we have had two principal objects in view: the diffusion...
Author
Publisher
Baldwin & Cradock
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The termination of the first volume of the Zoological Illustrations is accomplished, and its contents will not only enable our readers to discern the nature of the work, but likewise to form a judgement, on that degree of improvement which we have introduced since its first publication, and they may safely rely on the continuation being in no respect inferior.
In commencing a work of this nature, we have had two principal objects in view: the diffusion...
Author
Publisher
Baldwin & Cradock
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The termination of the first volume of the Zoological Illustrations is accomplished, and its contents will not only enable our readers to discern the nature of the work, but likewise to form a judgement, on that degree of improvement which we have introduced since its first publication, and they may safely rely on the continuation being in no respect inferior.
In commencing a work of this nature, we have had two principal objects in view: the diffusion...
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