AMERICAN NATURE SERIES 



In the hope of doing something toward furnishing a series where 

 the seeker will 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 books will be under the guarantee of American experts, 

 and 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 five divisions : 



I. THE CLASSIFICATION OF NATURE 



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

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

 questioned authority. 



Arranged for are: 



FISHES, by David Starr Jordan, President of the Leland Stanford 

 University. $6.00. 



AMERICAN INSECTS, by Vernon L. Kellogg, Professor in the 

 Leland Stanford Junior University. 



NORTH AMERICAN TREES, by N. L. Britton, Director of the 

 New York Botanical Garden. (February). 



SEEDLESS PLANTS, by Geo. T. Moore. Head of Department of 

 Botany, Marine Biological Laboratory, assisted by other special- 

 ists. 



BIRDS OF THE WORLD, by Frank H. Knowlton, President 

 Biological Society of Washington, etc., etc., with chapter on 

 Anatomy of Birds by Frederick A. Lucas, Chief Curator of the 

 Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences. Edited by Robert 

 Ridgway, Curator of Birds, U. S. National Museum. 



WILD MAMMALS, by C. Hart Merriam, Chief of the U. S. Bio- 

 logical Survey. 



Section B. A shorter Natural History by the authors of Section 

 A, preserving its popular character, its proportional treatment and 

 its authority so far as that can be preserved without its fullness. 



Section C. Identification books — " How to Know," brief and 

 in portable shape. By the authors of the larger treatises. 



