A Laboratory Manual of Botany: Outlines and Directions for Laboratory and Field-work in Botany in Secondary Schools

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D. Appleton and Company, 1902 - 107 páginas
 

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Página 96 - ... of taste. He writes out of the fullness of experimental knowledge, but his knowledge differs from that of many a trained cultivator in that his skill in garden practice is guided by a refined aesthetic sensibility, and his appreciation of what is beautiful in nature is healthy, hearty, and catholic. His record of the garden year, as we have said, begins with the earliest violet, and it follows the season through until the witch-hazel is blossoming on the border of the wintry woods. . . . This...
Página 97 - The home about which Dr. Abbott rambles is clearly the haunt of fowl and fish, of animal and insect life ; and it is of the habits and nature of these that he discourses pleasantly in this book. Summer and winter, morning and evening, he has been in the open air all the time on the alert for some new revelation of instinct, or feeling, or character on the part of his neighbor creatures. Most that he sees and hears he reports agreeably to us, as it was no doubt delightful to himself. Books like this,...
Página 92 - Bird Studies with a Camera. With Introductory Chapters on the Outfit and Methods of the Bird Photographer. By FRANK M. CHAPMAN, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the American Museum of Natural History ; Author of " Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America
Página 96 - AND THEIR PEDIGREES. By GRANT ALLEN, author of " Vignettes of Nature," etc. Illustrated. I2mo. Cloth, $1.50. "No writer treats scientific subjects with so much ease and charm of style as Mr. Grant Allen. The study is a delightful one, and the book is fascinating to any one who has either love for flowers or curiosity about them.
Página 96 - To the geologist and botanist the subject is one of importance with reference to their special pursuits, and one on which it has not been easy to find any convenient manual of information.
Página 93 - With 130 Illustrations by the Author. I2mo. Cloth, $1.75. ''Which one of us, whether afoot, awheel, on horseback, or in comfortable carriage, has not whiled away the time by glancing about ? How many of us, however, have taken in the details of what charms us ? We see the flowering fields and budding woods, listen...
Página 91 - Cloth, $1.25. This book is designed for those schools in which there is not a sufficient allotment of time to permit the development of plant Ecology and Morphology as outlined in "Plant Relations " and "Plant Structures," and yet which are desirous of imparting instruction from both points of view.
Página 97 - Much has been written on the structure of flowers, and it might seem almost superfluous to attempt to say anything more on the subject, but it is only within the last few years that a new literature has sprung up, in which the authors have described their observations and given their interpretations of the uses of floral mechanisms, more especially in connection with the processes of fertilization.
Página 92 - TEACHERS' EDITION. Same as Library Edition, but containing an Appendix with new matter designed for the use of teachers, and including lists of birds for each month of the year. izmo.
Página 91 - An Analytical Key to some of the Common Wild and Cultivated Species of Flowering Plants. i2mo. Limp cloth, 25 cents. An analytical key and guide to the common flora of the Northern and Eastern States, as its title indicates. May be used with any text-book of botany.

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