Download or read book Animal and Plant Lore Classic Reprint written by Fanny Bergen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animal and Plant Lore Tms Memoir is a continuation of a collection begun in the volume entitled Current Superstitions. The latter, which in 1896 appeared as the Fourth Memoir of the American folk-lore Society, may be considered as volume i. And the latter as volume ii. Of the same work, and they are so referred to in the Notes, and in the common Index which appears at the end of this book. The earlier collection deals almost entirely with beliefs not of a zoological or botanical nature, while the later one comprises only the folk-lore of animals and plants. In the chapter on the causes and cure of warts, con tained in Current Superstitions, many items are recorded which might more logically have been retained for insertion in the part now issued, had it not at the time seemed advisable to make the chapter as complete as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Animal and Plant Life in Oklahoma Classic Reprint written by Oklahoma Geological Survey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animal and Plant Life in Oklahoma The chapter on plant life in Oklahoma was compiled from the manuscripts of unpublished reports on the plant life of Oklahoma, by Mr. G. W. Stevens, formerly Head of the Department of Biology of Northwestern State Normal, Alva, and Mr. C. W. Shannon, Director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey. These manuscripts mentioned include a report on the flowering plants of Oklahoma, by Mr. Stevens, and a report on the trees and shrubs of Oklahoma by Mr. Shannon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Animal and Plant Lore written by Fanny Bergen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animal and Plant Lore This Memoir is a continuation of a collection begun in the volume entitled "Current Superstitions." The latter, which in 1896 appeared as the Fourth Memoir of the American Folk-Lore Society, may be considered as volume i. and the latter as volume ii. of the same work, and they are so referred to in the Notes, and in the common Index which appears at the end of this book. The earlier collection deals almost entirely with beliefs not of a zoological or botanical nature, while the later one comprises only the folk-lore of animals and plants. In the chapter on the causes and cure of warts, contained in "Current Superstitions," many items are recorded which might more logically have been retained for insertion in the part now issued, had it not at the time seemed advisable to make the chapter as complete as possible. In the preface to "Current Superstitions" there was narrated somewhat in detail the history of the collection of the material composing the chapters in that volume, as well as that catalogued in the present gathering of animal and plant lore. Not wishing to repeat, I may here merely mention that, with the exception of some half dozen items, the various superstitions, customs, and beliefs herein recorded have been collected entirely by verbal tradition, not from literary sources. Much has been noted directly from oral narration; the rest of the subject-matter of this volume has been obtained by correspondence. When a locality is wanting, my informant could not give one but was familiar with what was communicated. From many of the most fruitful localities for interesting folk-lore, it has not been possible to collect, or at best only an occasional stray item. In the less densely populated parts of the Southern States, in secluded parts of Canada, also in some of the very isolated New England villages and hamlets among the hills, I am convinced abundant fields await the sickle of the harvester of folk-lore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Wanderings of Plants and Animals from Their First Home Classic Reprint written by Victor Hehn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wanderings of Plants and Animals From Their First Home The history of our Domestic Animals and Cultivated Plants is a subject of absorbing interest to the educated man, and (if he knew it) to the uneducated man too. It forms no small, part of the history of Man himself and his slow advance to civilization. We cannot afford to kick down the ladders we have climbed by. If our venerable friend the "lowing Steer" has now "doffed the weary yoke" for good and all, and even his quite recent successor Dobbin bids fair to be driven off the field by a mechanical substitute, "the divel's oan team;" yet, some three or four thousand years ago, with our first wooden plough just invented, and the steam-plough still a long way ahead, what could we have done without "the ox and the ass to ear the ground"? And we have not quite done with our old friends yet; not till we have learnt to relish milk and beef manufactured without the aid of milkmaid or butcher; not till the invalid, advised to "take horse-exercise," consents to take it alongside Master Tom in the day-nursery. And not then. The Iron Horse was to have exterminated his prototype of flesh and blood, but Dobbin seems inclined to stay; nay, if we except the plough-horse and the stager, he is in greater request than ever. And who can state the sum of our obligations to the sheep, the pig, the camel, the dog, and even poor mousing Puss? Or why should Chanticleer and his family, with other bipeds of the poultry-yard, be forgotten? And much the same may be said of Cultivated Plants - the grains, the potherbs, garden-flowers, fruit-trees, timber, and even ornamental trees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Old and New Plant Lore written by Agnes Chase and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old and New Plant Lore: A Symposium The study of plants is called botany. The word botany may suggest a vague world outside of man's ordinary ex perience, a world dominated by long and fearsome Latin names. As a matter of fact, forbidding Latin names form a very small part of botany and need repel no one. F ur thermore, the average man actually has more knowledge of botany than he realizes. Agriculture, horticulture, gardening - even the making of a lawn - are applied botany. He knows also that potatoes, rice, and bread contain starch and that sweet fruits and sweet potatoes contain sugar; and he realizes, if he gives the matter sufli cient thought, that starch and sugar are plant products and that plants are a great factory in which much of our sustenance is manufactured. This world of plants, with which we animals Share the earth, is of such interest and beauty as to be well worth at least enough study to open our eyes to its everyday marvels. So much study we propose to give here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Animal Life written by David Starr Jordan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animal Life: A First Book of Zoölogy Primary conditions and special conditions, 106. - Food, 106. Oxygen, 107. - Temperature, pressure, and other conditions, 108. - Difference between animals and plants, 111. - Living organic matter and inorganic matter, 1153. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Natural History of Animals Classic Reprint written by John Bigland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Natural History of Animals The study of Nature is the basis of Religion; and in the primitive ages of the world, previous to the epoch of revelation, mankind had no other guide to direct them to a knowledge of the existence and attributes of the Deity, than the contemplation of his works. These, indeed, exhibited such evident proofs of his power, his wisdom, and his goodness, as were sufficient to convince rational creatures, that a self-existent and infinite Being was the source and origin of all existence. This St. Paul so well understood, that he condemns the Gentiles, because, after having recognised the Supreme Being in the works of the creation, they neglected to worship him, and considers them as inexcus able; Because, says he, the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plant Animals written by Frederick Keeble and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plant-Animals: A Study in Symbiosis During some ten years' work in a small marine laboratory in Brittany it has fallen to me not infrequently to attempt to explain to curious visitors what were my objects in going to and fro upon the shore, in wading among the seaweeds and in bringing into the laboratory minute, worm-like animals which represented often my sole "catch." I discovered that many of the visitors to the laboratory became interested in the work that was going on, and that, though they disclaimed a knowledge of biology, they followed with understanding and interest the story of the behaviour and life histories of "the worms" - indeed, they succeeded generally in putting to me pertinent and unanswerable questions with respect to these "plant-animals." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Animal Forms written by David S. Jordan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animal Forms: A Text-Book of Zoology In the oak-tree, for example, the roots reaching down into the earth, with the branches and leaves spreading out into the air and sunlight, are admirably fitted for taking up the food, which consists of very simple materials, less com plex than those forming the diet of an animal. This permits a continuous existence in one place, and accord ingly we note the entire absence of locomotion and the or gans controlling it, which form so conspicuous a part of the body of an animal. Also in the production of flowers and seeds, and in the growth of the seed into the tree, we detect many characteristics peculiar to plants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Colouration in Animals and Plants Classic Reprint written by Alfred Tylor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Colouration in Animals and Plants But with the dawn of the new scientific faith, light began to shine upon these and kindred questions; nature ceased to appear a mass of useless, unconnected facts, and ornamentation appeared in its true guise as of extreme importance to the beings possessing it. It was the theory of descent with modification that threw this light upon nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Intelligence in Plants and Animals Classic Reprint written by Thomas G. Gentry and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Intelligence in Plants and Animals Nothing is more charming to the mind of man than the study of Nature. Religion, moderation and magnanimity have been made a part of his inner being through her teachings, and the soul has been rescued by her influence from obscurity. No longer doth man grovel in the dust, seeking, animal-like, the gratification of low and base desires, as was his wont, but on the wings of thought is enabled to soar to the very gates of Heaven and hold communion with God. Though made a little lower than the angels, yet, through the mighty play of forces that have been at work in the world, which we, in the latter half of this enlightened century, are just beginning-to recognize and comprehend, he has been lifted from the mire of degra dation and placed upon a higher social, intellectual, moral and spiritual level. Out of the animal, in the scheme Of Deity, the Spiritual system Of things is to be elaborated, and not the animal out of the Spiritual. This natural world, so to speak, is the raw material of the spiritual. Therefore, ere man can understand the Spiritual, he must understand the natural. Though his knowledge was at first about material things, or such as pertained to natural phenomena, yet from this through the ages has been builded, little by little, that mountain-height of knowl edge, intellectual and moral, which, if rightly directed, is to bring him into fellowship with Deity. A's we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly, or, Lord from heaven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Wonders of Animal Ingenuity Classic Reprint written by H. Coupin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wonders of Animal Ingenuity N the pleasant days when we have not long begun to look on a wonderful world peopled with beings great and small all living their busy lives after their own fashion, most of us are in some respects nearer to understanding the ways of the myriad creatures which share the earth with us than we have ever the good fortune to be in later years. Before a sparrow becomes for us only a sparrow, or we have been taught to associate the word horrid with a score of interesting and often beautiful little animals which we meet day by day, the things that happen in animal-land are not passed over with unseeing eyes; the earth is filled with romance, and we live in a true fairyland. From a few fortunate ones the spell is never lifted; for them its fascination grows stronger with time, andsthe story becomes constantly more engrossing, for it is one whose secret, though ever unfolding, can never be wholly revealed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Charles Darwin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. 1 of 2 It may be useful to those who have read nothing about Natural Selection, if I here give a brief sketch of the whole subject and of its bearing on the origin of species.1 This is the more desirable, as it is impossible in the present work to avoid many allusions to questions which will be fully discussed in future volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Plant written by Harland Coultas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plant: An Illustration of the Organic Life of the Animal A German naturalist, Mohl, selected for observation one of the fresh water algae, which had been previously figured and described as Conferva glomerata. This simple, thread-like plant was placed beneath the microscope, and the develop ment of the row of utricles of which its entire organization consists, watched. Very soon, Mohl observed that the inte rior face of the cavity of one of the utricles presented towards its middle part a fold, which increased almost imperceptibly until it ended by forming a complete wall dividing the cavity of the utricle into two parts. Each of these then dilated itself into a new utricle. Thus in the place of one cell there were two cells, which again divided in the same way, and so on. It is in this way that a single cell gives rise to a row of connect ed cells, when the division takes place in one direction, and to a plane or solid mass when it takes place in two or more di rections. There are other modes of increase which we shall notice in the ensuing pages; suffice it for the present to say, that their discovery originated in the investigation of crypto gamons plants of extreme simplicity of organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Animals of Land and Sea Classic Reprint written by Austin Hobart Clark and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animals of Land and Sea It is unfortunately quite impossible to give a complete list of all those numerous friends who have been so kind as to make suggestions of various sorts in regard to the treatment of different animal types, and to check up for me statements made concerning animals with which I have only a slight personal acquaintance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Natural History of Some Common Animals Classic Reprint written by Oswald H. Latter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Natural History of Some Common Animals In addition to those to whom acknowledgments of kind assistance are made in the text, I must express my thanks to Mr M. D. Hill, of Eton College, for reading the proofs and for numerous helpful suggestions, to my former pupil Mr Edgar Schuster, of New College, Oxford, for valuable help in consulting the literature of the subject, and to Mr A. E. Shipley, of Christ's College, Cam bridge, for permission to use a large number of the plates that appear in Shipley and macbride's Zoology, and for frequent advice and help in the course of the preparation of the book. I am also much indebted to Mr Edwin Wilson for the skill and care which he has bestowed upon my original drawings, figs. 15, 16, 20, 35, 36, 37 and 38, in preparing them for reproduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Cassell s Natural History Classic Reprint written by F. Martin Duncan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cassell's Natural History If the book and its illustrations should help to awaken and stimulate an interest in the wonders and beauties of animal life, then my labours have not been in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
