Life Sciences
The Botanic Garden, a Poem
Read by Matthew Muñoz
Erasmus Darwin
Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus was also a famous naturalist in his own day, in addition to being a celebrated poet. This is the first …
On Comparative Longevity in Man and the Lower Animals
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E. Ray Lankester
A prize was recently offered in the University of Oxford for an Essay on Longevity, and was awarded to the little treatise now published. In…
Scientific American Supplement
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Various
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…
The American Bee Journal
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Various
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…
Botanical Features of North American Deserts
Read by Leon Harvey
Daniel Trembly Macdougal
This book contains field research work of the desert laboratory near Tucson, Arizona, studying the botanical ecosystem surviving in the arid…
Principles Involved in the Preservation of Fish by Salt
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Harden Franklin Taylor
A monograph appended to the 1922 Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries. Topics covered include the chemical processes involved in pre…