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, 7|xlOi in. 



The books so far 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. KELLOGG, Professor in the 



Leland Stanford Junior University. $5.00 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 Msa- 

 RIAM, Chief of the United States Biological Survey. 



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

 KNOWLTON, M.S., Ph.D., Member American Ornithologists 

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



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