AMERICAN NATURE SERIES (Continued) 



GROUP 11. FUNCTIONS OF NATURE 



These books will treat of the relation of facts to causes and effects — 

 of heredity in organic Nature, and of the environment in all Nature. In 

 treatinj)- of Inorganic Nature, the physical and chemical relations will be 

 specially expounded; and in treating of organized creatui'es, the relations 

 to food and climate, with the peculiarities of their functions — internal and 

 external. 



THE BIRD : ITS FORM AND FUNCTION, by C. W. Beebe Curator 

 of Birds in the New York Zoological Park. 



GROUP III. REALMS OF NATURE 



Detailed treatment of various dei)artments in a literary and popular 

 way . 



Already i)ublished : 



FERNS, by Campbell E. Waters, of Johns Hopkins University. 8vo, 

 l)]). xi + 302. Price $3.00 net. 



GROUP IV. WORKING WITH NATURE 



How to propagate, develop and care for the plants and animals. 

 Published in this division is: 



NATURE AND HEALTH, hy Edward Curtis, Professor Emeritus in the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons. 1 '2mo, $1.25 net. 



Arranged for are : 

 CHEMISTRY OF DAILY LIFE, by Henry P. Talbot, Professor of 

 Chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 



DOMESTIC ANIMALS, by William H. Brewer, Professor Emeritus in 

 Yale University. 



THE CARE OF TREES IN LAWN, STREET AND PARK, by B. E. 



Fernow, Late Head of the Cornell School of Forestry. 



GROUP V. DIVERSIONS FROM NATURE 



This division will include a wide range of writings not rigidly system- 

 atic or formal, but written only by authorities of standing. 



FISH STORIES, by David Starr Jordan, President of the Leland Stan- 

 ford Junior University. 



HORSE TALK, by William H. Brewer, Professor Emeritus in Yale 

 University. 



BIRD NOTES, by C. W. Beebe, Curator of Birds in the New York 

 Zoological Park. 



HENTIY HOLT AND COMPANY, Publish i:us 



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