A Book of Natural History

Huxley, Darwin, Wallace, Burroughs and Maeterlinck, writing for young readers — thirty-odd essays by the great naturalists on everything from the man-like apes to what worms do.

How Animals Spend the Winter

3 pages in this part of A Book of Natural History.

How Animals Spend the Winter

NE of the greatest problems which each of the living forms about us has had to solve, during the years of its existence on earth, is how…

How Animals Spend the Winter: Latin

When handled it always tries to bite, perhaps out of revenge for the abominably long Latin name given it by its describer.

How Animals Spend the Winter: Orthoptera

In any Northern State as many as four hundred different kinds of the six-footed or true insects, in the winged or adult stage, may be taken…

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