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CATALOGUE OF BOOKS.
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N. Y., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1886, 2 v. $1.50
These articles by this renowned scientist may be considered as familiar talks on scientific subjects rather than as scientific papers.
N. Y., Doubleday & McClure, 1898 $1.50
A study of nature's wonders, as demonstrated in the life of our familiar insects and in plant life.
N. Y., Century Co., 1895 $1.50
Information has beeng-iven in the simplest form consistent with clearness, fulness and strict scientific accuracy.
N. Y., Macmillan & Co., 1890 $3.50
The details gathered from personal observation of animals' habits are full of value.
N. Y., Harper & Bros., n. d. $2
The book is a summary, a hand book with notes and comments; but comprehensive and complete.
Phila., Lippincott, 1893 $2.50
Physical conditions of other worlds; Jupiter's fifth satellite; Mars; the heat wave of 1892; meteorites; gases; spectroscopic astronomy, etc.
N. Y., Appleton, 1891 $1
This is written specially to make clear the law of the distribution of sun-heat between the seasons, in which law the author finds the cause of an ice age.
Bost., D. Lothrop, 1891 $1.50
Sixteen short stories about caterpillars, bluejays, sea anemones, tree toads, seals and other creatures of land and sea.
N. Y., Appleton, 1897 net, 65c
The whole story is not told; its aim is simply to present in a rather unusual, yet popular way, the more striking scientific features of their probable development.

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