THE AMERICAN NATURE SERIES 
In the hope of doing something toward furnishing a series where 
the nature-lover can 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 primary object of the new series is to answer questions 
which the contemplation of Nature is constantly arousing in the 
mind of the unscientific intelligent person. But a collateral object 
will be to give some intelligent notion of the ‘‘causes of things.” 
While the codperation of foreign scholars will not be declined, 
the books will be under the guarantee of American experts, and gen- 
erally 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 six divisions : 
I. NATURAL HISTORY 
This division will consist of two sections. 
Section A. A large popular Natural History in several vol- 
umes, with the topics treated in due proportion, by authors of un- 
questioned authority. 8vo, 74x104 in. 
The books so far publisht in this section are: 
FISHES, by Davin Starr Jorpay, President of the Leland Stanford 
Junior University. $6.00 net; carriage extra. 
AMERICAN INSECTS, by Vernon L. Ketztoaa, Professor in the 
Leland Stanford Junior University. $5.00 net; carriage extra. 
BIRDS OF THE WORLD. A popular account by Franx H. 
Kwowrton, M.S., Ph.D., Member American Ornithologists 
Union, President Biological Society of Washington, etc., etc., 
with Chapter on Anatomy of Birds by Freperic A. Lucas, 
Chief Curator Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences, and edited 
by Rosertr Riveway, Curator of Birds, U.S. National Museum. 
$7.00 net; carriage extra. 
Arranged for are: 
SEEDLESS PLANTS, by Groner T. Moors, Head of Department 
of Botany, Marine Biological Laboratory, assisted by other spe- 
cialists. 
WILD MAMMALS OF NORTH AMERICA, by C. Harr Mer- 
niam, Chief of the United States Biological Survey. 
REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS, by Leonnarp STEIJNEGER, 
Curator of Reptiles, U. S, National Museum. 
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