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Commonwealth," the same year. Thereafter his books were 

 sent forth in rapid succession and about in the order in which 

 they are mentioned here. "Physiography of North America" 

 (Narrative and Critical History of America, edited by Justin 

 Winsor), "Field Geology" (published serially in Popular Science 

 News), "Aspects of the Earth," "Nature and Man in Amer- 

 ica," " The Story of Our Continent," " Sea and Land," " Valor " 

 (a poem), "The United States" (edited by N. S. Shaler), "The In- 

 terpretation of Nature," " Domesticated Animals," "American 

 Highways," "Outlines of the Earth's History," "The Individ- 

 ual," "The Moon," "Elizabeth of England" (5vols.), "The 

 Neighbor," "The Citizen," "Man and the Earth," "From 

 Old Fields." In addition to the above list of his principal writ- 

 ings there are twenty-one long and valuable publications con- 

 tained in the United States Geological Survey Reports, also 

 others in the Reports of the Coast Survey, and a long list of 

 papers in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, and in the Annual Reports of the Curator in the Mu- 

 seum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Mr. Shaler's 

 contributions to learned societies, to scientific journals, and to 

 magazines, and his book reviews alone would fill many vol- 

 umes. 



The "First Book of Geology" was gratefully received by 

 teachers and was so well appreciated abroad that in the course 

 of time it was translated into the German, Russian, and Polish 

 languages. It was also embossed in print characters for the use 

 of the blind. From the hundreds of letters sent to both pub- 

 lishers and author after the appearance of this little book one 

 learns of the satisfaction felt in getting hold of something which 

 was untechnical in style, entertaining, and scientifically true. 

 One teacher writes : " The interesting way in which you treat of 

 all even the most abstruse questions would vivify a stone, to 

 say nothing of the receptive mind of an average pupil." This 

 book was the beginning of a series which he had in mind. Again 

 and again he was requested by publishers to write the more 



