The insects mentioned
in these pages are those of Alameda County, California, but members of
the same families will be found in or beside almost any brook, East or
West.
CHAPMAN, F.M.
Bird-Life.
Illustrated by E.E. Thompson-Seton.
Appleton. 2.00
Illustrated with seventy-five full-page plates in color and
figures in the text. Non-technical, with a color key to about one
hundred and fifty of the more common species. This book is in two
parts. The first chapters define the bird, its place in Nature,
and its relation to man, and outline the leading facts in its
life-history. The second part gives a Field Key based on color,
and biographies of some of the common birds.
AUDUBON SOCIETY.
CLODD, EDWARD.
The Childhood of the World.
Kegan Paul. 1.25
This book ... is an attempt, in the absence of any kindred
elementary work, to narrate, in as simple language as the subject
will permit, the story of man's progress from the unknown time of
his early appearance upon the earth to the period from which
writers of history ordinarily begin. ... The First Part of this
book describes the progress of man in material things, while (p.
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