Science Books

Animal Life in Field and Garden

Jean-Henri Fabre

The 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 Fabre

November 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 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..

Subject to Vanity

Margaret Benson

We 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 Hawksworth

The 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 Emerson

The 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 Fabre

I 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 Fabre

For 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, ..