International Scientist's Directory

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PCL Publications., 1882
 

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Página 391 - Guide to the Study Of Insects, and a Treatise on those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops.
Página 387 - KEY TO NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Second edition, revised to date, and entirely rewritten : with which are incorporated General Ornithology...
Página 387 - The only general exposition of this department of American ornithology that has yet been made." — Atlantic Monthly. " There is a freshness and boldness in the manner in which facts are handled, which will be extremely acceptable." — Nature. "No expense has been spared in the preparation of this volume. The woodcuts are so well executed they would easily pass for something better. The index is complete; so is the glossary.
Página 382 - THE principal objects of the series are to supply the lack — in some subjects very great — of authoritative books whose principles are, so far as practicable, illustrated by familiar American facts, and also to supply the other lack that the advance of Science perennially creates, of text-books which at least do not contradict the latest generalizations.

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