AMERICAN NATURE SERIES (Continued) 
GROUP II. 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 
treating of Inorganic Nature, the physical and chemical relations will be 
specially expounded ; and in treating of organized creatures, the relations 
to food and climate, with the peculiarities of their functions—internal and 
external. 
THE BIRD: ITS FORM AND FUNCTION, by C. W. Breese Curator 
of Birds in the New York Zoological Park. 
GROUP III. REALMS OF NATURE 
Detailed treatment of various departments in a literary and popular 
Way 
Already published: 
FERNS, by Cimpsern. E. Warers, of Johns Hopkins University.  8vo, 
pp. Xi#3862. Price 83.00 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, by Epwarp Curtis, Professor Emeritus in the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons. 1zmo, $1.25 net. 
Arranged for are: 
CHEMISTRY OF DAILY LIFE, by Henry P. Tarpor, Professor of 
Chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS, by Wittasm H. Brewer, Professor Emeritus in 
Yale University. 
THE CARE OF TREES IN LAWN, STREET AND PARK, by B. E. 
TFernow, 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 standine. 
FISH STORIES, by Davin Srirr Jorpay, President of the Leland Stan- 
ford Junior University. 
HORSE TALK, by Wittiam H. Brewer, Professor Emeritus in Yale 
University. 
BIRD NOTES, by C. W. Beever, Curator of Birds in the New York 
Zoolovical Park. 
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY, Puvuxpuisuenrs 
29 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET, NEW YORK 
