The Nature Library

A fifteen-volume guide to the living world

The Nature Library

Birds, beasts, fishes, butterflies, moths, insects, wild flowers, mushrooms, trees, frogs, reptiles, mosses, and shells — the whole of natural history, written for the beginner who wants to “most quickly and surely learn to know the beautiful world that lies all about.”

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The Fifteen Volumes

I Bird Neighbours Neltje Blanchan II Game Birds Neltje Blanchan III Bird Homes A. Radclyffe DugmoreImages coming soon IV American Animals Witmer Stone & William Everett Cram V Fishes David Starr Jordan & Barton W. Evermann VI Butterflies W. J. Holland VII Moths W. J. Holland VIII Insects Leland O. HowardImages coming soon IX Wild Flowers Neltje BlanchanComing soon X Mushrooms Nina L. MarshallComing soon XI Trees Julia Ellen RogersImages coming soon XII Frogs Mary C. DickersonImages coming soon XIII Reptiles Raymond L. DitmarsImages coming soon XIV Mosses and Lichens Nina L. MarshallImages coming soon XV Shells Julia Ellen RogersImages coming soon

Nature Study

✓ The Life List Check off every bird, beast and fish as you meet it. ? Name That Creature A plate, four names — can you identify it? ☼ Creature of the Day One creature from the volumes, chosen fresh each day.