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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1899
Various and William Jay Youmans
258 pages~5 hr 8 min read34 chapters$4.99
Florida's alligator gets its portrait; Philadelphia's schools take up nature study. This January 1899 Appletons' also charts industrial evolution and the racial geography of Europe, mixing wildlife with sociology in a single sitting. The turning century talking to itself. Dip into a month of Victorian science and see what mattered.
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34 chapters
- 1APPLETONS' POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3THE EVOLUTION OF COLONIES.
- 4VI.—INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION.
- 5THE MIND'S EYE.
- 6NATURE STUDY IN THE PHILADELPHIA NORMAL SCHOOL.
- 7PRINCIPLES OF TAXATION.[6]
- 8XX.—THE LAW OF THE DIFFUSION OF TAXES.
- 9PART I.
- 10OUR FLORIDA ALLIGATOR.
- 11THE RACIAL GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE.
- 12SUPPLEMENT.—THE JEWS (continued).
- 13TRUE TALES OF BIRDS AND BEASTS.
- 14I.—SEÑOR ALCATRAZ.
- 15GLACIAL GEOLOGY IN AMERICA.
- 16MODERN STUDIES OF EARTHQUAKES.
- 17A SHORT HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUCTION[33]
- 18SHOULD CHILDREN UNDER TEN LEARN TO READ AND WRITE?
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