ANNOTATED LIST OF NATURAL HISTORY 
WORKS, ESPECIALLY USEFUL TO ROCKY 
MOUNTAIN STUDENTS 
I, THE VERTEBRATES 
By Junius HENDERSON 
Since nature-study assumed so prominent a place in the public esteem 
and in school curricula, numerous inquiries are received from parents, 
teachers, and others as to the most helpful works on the subject. This 
paper is designed to answer some of the inquiries. The works here 
given are scientific and reliable, very different from many books now 
finding their way into private and school libraries under the guise of 
natural history works. The omission of titles from this list does not 
signify that the omitted works are necessarily less worthy of notice. 
The number of good books precludes the mention of all. A list such as 
this is not needed by the professoinal naturalist, who knows most of 
them. Consequently this paper, though including some technical works, 
is directed to the non-technical public, particularly to those who reside 
in the Rocky Mountain or Pacific Coast region. 
From the beginning birds have occupied the most prominent place 
in nature-study and bird literature has expanded to great proportions, 
affording large numbers of works suitable to the general student, only 
a small number of which can be selected for notice here. With mammals 
the number is far less, with fishes still less, and in case of reptiles and 
amphibians there are very few works of merit written for popular use. 
The classes are herein taken up in regular order, first giving the general 
works which include all the vertebrates, then beginning with fishes and 
ending with mammals. 
VERTEBRATES IN GENERAL 
ScumeIt, Orro. Text Book of Zodlogy. English Edition, Adam and Charles Black. 
London. 1901. 486 pages. 
Instructive account of appearance, structure and habits of animals in non-technical 
language. More than one-half devoted to vertebrates. 
Io. 
