Articles: THOSE ELEPHANT PIPES AGAIN by Warren Watson; THE RESURRECTION FERN, by "Arkansaw Hoosier"; PALAEONTOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN AND NEAR KANSAS CITY, MO., by David H. Todd; THE ANTERIOR ARTS, by "Ictinus"; and THE PRE-HISTORIC MEN WITH LIEUTENANT FREDERICK SCHWATKA. Last 2 pages with "inducements to new subscribers with etchings of free "specimens" in exchange for a subscription to THE NATURALIST. They include "a fine Barnacle from the Atlantic, a Shark's Egg and an Egg of the Skate, or Two fine specimens of Resurection Plant, from Mexico, or a Mother of Pe... View More...
Some articles include: ON THE NEWLY-DISCOVERED SALT BEDS IN ELLSWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS and SOME EXPERIMENTS ON THE RELATION BETWEEN THE TASTE AND THE ACIDITY OF CERTAIN ACIDS by E. H. S. Bailey; several articles by N. S. Goss including ICTINIA MISSISSIPPIENSIS AND AEGIALITIS NIVOSA, NESTING IN SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS; other articles: THE BLACK ROT OF THE GRAPE; FLORA OF KANSAS; PINK AND WHITE TERRACES OF NEW ZEALAND; EARLY STAGES OF THREE MOTHS with 3 illustrations; DICOTYLEDONOUS LEAVES OF THE DAKOTA ROCKS with plate; GEOLOGY OF THE LEAVENWORTH PROSPECT WELL; EVAPORATIVE POWER OF KANSAS COALS with... View More...
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service-Bulletin 121. "Not only has the tree planting by the Forest Service in the Nebraska sand hills aroused a wide interest, ...it is worth while to give a record of the work which has been accomplished and to show for the benefit of planters the mistakes which have been made and the successes which have been attained..." 49 pp. 13 photographic plates. 14 tables. Brown paper covers, sunned around edges. ex.mus. stamp and numbers on front cover. Otherwise covers are Very Good. Stapled at spine. Staples rusty. Middle of the publication-page 26-27... View More...
"The work of the Baldwin Magnetic Observatory began in June, 1900... In October, 1909, the work at Baldwin was discontinued and the instruments were transferred to the newly constructed observatory at Tucson, Ariz." 114 pp. 30 foldout graphs with reproductions of magnetograms showing the principal magnetic storms in 1907-1909. Numerous tables.grey paper wraps. Mildly soiled. ex-mus.numbers on front cover. Spine faded, bottom edge mildly chipped. Overall covers are Good+ to Very Good -. faint ex.mus. stamp on title page, otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. View More...
"The work of the Baldwin Magnetic Observatory began in June, 1900... The work of the Baldwin Observatory during 1905 and 1906 was carried on by the following magnetic observers: L.B. Smith, W.B. Keeling, and S,.A. Deel." 107 pp. 26 graphs with reproductions of magnetograms showing the principal magnetic storms in 1905 and 1906. Numerous tables.Tan paper wraps. Mildly soiled. faint ex-mus.stamp on front cover. ex-mus. numbers on front cover. Spine faded. Overall covers are Good+ to Very Good -. ex.mus. stamp on title page, otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. View More...
Praying For such legislation as may enable persons entitled thereto to purchase certain lands under the seventeenth article of the treaty of July 19, 1866, between the United States and the Cherokee Indians. House of Representives. Mis. Doc. No. 91, 43d Congress, 2d session. February 22, 1875. Disbound. 2 pp.(front and back) Very Good. View More...
35th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Report No. 377. May 11, 1858 -- Ordered to be printed. ..."'concerning the constitution framed at Lecompton, in the Territory of Kansas, by a convention of delegates thereof, and the papers accompanying the same,' with instructions 'to inquire into all the facts connected with the formation of said constitution, and the laws under which the same originated; and into all such facts and proceedings as have transpired since the formation of said constitution having relation to the question or propriety of the admission of said Territory ... View More...
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service -- Circular 161. Issued March 2, 1909. "This investigation upon which this report is based were made for the purpose of determining the kinds of forest trees best adapted to western Kansas and the methods of treatment which have proved most successful." 51 pp. Ex. museum stamp and identification numbers on front, stamp on first page. Browning along cover edges, some chipping and small tears. Small tear to edge of contents page. Creasing to top page corner. Interior clean. Pamphlet in VG- condition. View More...
"This pamphlet is one of a series which present the results of a Church Survey in the field of Town and Country, begun under the auspices of the Interchurch World Movement and completed by the Committee on Social and Religious surveys." Contents: Part I: A General View of the Field. I. Introducing Sedgwick County; II. Economic Characteristics; III. The Making of the Rural Community; IV. Social Characteristics. Part II: Religious Life and Institutions: V. The Religious Situation in General; VI. Equipment and Finance; VII. The Ministers; VIII Membership; IX. Organisation and Programme; X... View More...
189 color postcard images of Wichita, Kansas. Black stiff paper covers with image of Wichita building on front. Cover corners and edges are rubbed and worn, corners creased, wear and marks to cover faces, rubbing to joints, spine creased, spine ends worn. Interior tight, clean, no marks. Book in VG- condition. View More...
And on the Subject of Obstructive Bridges Across, and of Flood Conditions in, Kansas River at and Near its Mouth. Kansas (KAW) and Missouri Rivers. 58th Congress, 2d Session, Senate, Document No. 160. February 15, 1904.--Laid on the table and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. 133 pp. 18 b/w photographs depicting damage caused by flood. Disbound government document. Residue and string-ties from book remains on spine. Chipping to bottom front page corner, and back page top corner is dog-earred. Some waviness to plates. Document in VG- condition. View More...
History of music and music performance in Wichita, Kansas. Signed by both authors on title page. Unpaginated. Salmon pink cloth covers with gilt title and images on front, gilt title on spine. No jacket. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed, spine and joints are faded, spine ends are bent. Front hinge broken. Interior clean, tight. Book in VG condition. View More...
True stories of pioneer women which the author discovered in the attic of her grandmother's home. "Never has there been such a detailed record of women's courage or such a living portrait of the women who civilized the frontier...Here are stories o wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders and circuit riders. Map endpapers of Frontier Kansas with The Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroads, Kansas Pacific Railroad, Chisholm Trail and the Western Trail. Illus. with photographs from the period and introduced by historian Arthur M. S... View More...
