THE AMERICAN NATURE SERIES 



In the hope of doing something toward furnishing a series where 

 the nature-lover can surely find a readable book of high authority, 

 the publishers of the American Science Series have begun the publi- 

 cation of the American Nature Series. It is the intention that in its 

 own way, the new series shall stand on a par with its famous prede- 

 cessor. 



The primary object of the new series is to answer questions 

 which the contemplation of Nature is constantly arousing in the 

 mind of the unscientific intelligent person. But a collateral object 

 will be to give some intelligent notion of the "causes of things." 



While the cooperation of foreign scholars will not be declined, 

 the books will be under the guarantee of American experts, and gen- 

 erally from the American point of view; and where material crowds 

 space, preference will be given to American facts over others of not 

 more than equal interest. 



The series will be in six divisions : 



I. NATURAL HISTORY 



This division will consist of two sections. 



Section A. A large popular Natural History in several vol- 

 umes, with the topics treated in due proportion, by authors of un- 

 questioned authority. 8vo. T^xlOj in. 



The hooks sojar publisht in this section are: 



FISHES, by DAVID STARR JORDAN, President of the Leland Stanford 

 Junior University. $6.00 net; carriage extra. 



AMERICAN INSECTS, by VERNON L. KEM.OGG, Professor in the 

 Leland Stanford Junior University. $.5.00 net; carriage extra. 



BIRDS OF THE WORLD. A popular account by FRANK H. 

 KNOWI.TON, M.S., Ph.D., Member American Ornithologists 

 Union, President Biological Society of Washington, etc., etc., 

 with Chapter on Anatomy of Birds by FREDERIC A. LUCAS, 

 Chief Curator Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences, and edited 

 by ROBERT RIDGWAY, Curator of Birds, U.S. National Museum. 

 $7.00 net; carriage extra. 



Arranged for are: 



SEEDLESS PLANTS, by GEORGE T. MOORE, Head of Department 

 of Botany, Marine Biological Laboratory, assisted by other spe- 

 cialists. 



WILD MAMMALS OF NORTH AMERICA, by C. HART MEH- 

 RIAM, Chief of the United States Biological Survey. 



REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS, by LEONHARH STEJNEGER, 

 Curator of Reptiles, U. S. National Museum. 



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