Nature Books

Woodland Paths

Winthrop Packard

The night was dark and bitter cold, though it was early March. Over in the dismal depths of Pigeon Swamp, where no pigeons have nested for nearly a half century though it is as wild and lone to-day as..

Wildwood Ways

Winthrop Packard

Far other and stranger forms of winter-guarding forethought are to be seen all about the big mowing field and in the coppices that divide it from the open marsh and the pond shore, if we will but look..

A Town Is Drowning

Frederik Pohl

Mickey Groff wasn't much of a waiter. There wasn't a showdog's chance of a car stopping to help him, of course—even if one came by, they'd hardly be able to see him. Anyway, Sam's Grocery couldn't be ..

Irritability - A Physiological Analysis

Max Verworn

The 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..

Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals

A. E. Pratt

This record of two years’ scientific work in the only country of the globe that has still escaped exploration purposely avoids the dry detail of a Natural History Report. During my brief residenc..

An Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal Life

Henry Curtis

Some physiologists, and those of no mean note, have considered the operations of the human frame as a circle of functions governed by mechanical organic laws, as we discover in an hydraulic machine, o..

The Lone Swallows

Henry Williamson

The rooks are now busy in the elms of the churchyard, and drifting thwartwise the wind with sticks for their nests. Sometimes a young male bird comes with food for his mate as she pleaches the twigs w..