Chapters on the Natural History 

 of the United States 



By DR. R. M. SHUFELDT, 



Issued under the Auspices of the Natural Science 

 Association of America 



New York, U. S. A. 



npHIS volume is a handsomely printed royal octavo of about 400 pages, illustrated 

 by many full-page plates and numerous text figures. In scheme the book 

 consists of a series of chapters devoted to the life histories of many of the better- 

 known mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and insects of the United States, written in 

 a thoroughly instructive and popular style. Scientific technicalities are, however, 

 not altogether ignored, but are so incorporated as not to interfere with the popular 

 presentation of the subject-matter as a whole. One of the chief features of the 

 work consists in the elegant half-tone plates reproduced fr om a remarkable series 

 of photographs, all made by Dr. Shufeldt h imself from the living forms. Fully 

 four-fifths of these are of the size of life, and present the subjects in their most char- 

 acteristic attitudes, and frequently with all the natural surroundings of their haunts 

 in nature. From this point of view alone, these figures constitute a series highly 

 calculated to help teachers and parents throughout the world ; to educate students 

 and pupils of all ages in the correct appreciation of form of living creatures ; and 

 finally, to stand as models of great value for the use of artists and taxidermists. 

 Indeed, the work cannot fail to be but of the greatest use to teachers in the public 

 schools throughout the United States, while in the library of the general reader it 

 will fill the place of one of a class of works upon natural history, which, in this 

 age of biological literature, are only too rarely produced, given over, as the ma- 

 jority of them are, to the more technical treatment and aspects of science. The 

 author, Dr. Robert W. Shufeldt, is well known as an eminent writer on popular 

 and scientific natural history, for many years Associate Zoologist at the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



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