Entomomological Series No.5. "The wild life preserve known as the Lloyd-Cornell Reservation lies fifteen miles northeast of Ithaca, New York...It is an uncultivated area of bogs and ridges comprising the greater part of the Mud Pond basin. Within the basin are a number of cold upland bogs, that are of great biological interest." Contents include: INTRODUCTION with chapters on The Soil, Waters, Depth of the bogs, Mud Pond; Streams, and Bog cover; FLORA AND FAUNA with chapters on The vascular plants, the Bryophytes, Fungi, Myxomycetes; Vertebrates; Invertebrates; Insects, Spiders, Protoz... View More...
ex.-mus. numbers on front cover. ex-mus. stamp on first page. Mild soiling. small nick-chewed? on side edge to pp.3, otherwise exterior is Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+ View More...
"A Comparative Study of the Cytology and Movements of the Cyanophyceae" by Orville Phillips. Plates XXIII-XXXIV. Reprinted from Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Pennsylvania. Printed on the Mrs. James McManes Fund. pp.237-438. ex.mus. numbers on front cover. mildly soiled/faded covers. paper spine ends missing some pieces. Covers intact. Overall Good +. ex-mus. stamp on title page, otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Index. View More...
26 Reports covering years: 1906-1910,1912-1924,1926-1932, and 1966. Commences with report of the death of Marshall Field, founder of the Museum. Frontis. portrait of Field (Plate). Plate II: Mourning Design in Museum Rotunda Exposed for Thirty Days Following Mr. Field's Death. Each year's report gives Accessions in Departments of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, Zoology. Numerous Plates in each Report. Stiff cover wraps-mildly soiled. Some with chips along edges or spine. A few with small pieces of paper spine missing, but still intact. ex.mus. stamp/numbers either on front or on title page. 19... View More...
36 issues.1940-1943 and 1945-1947 Complete. 4 issues per year. 1944, 1948 and 1949: no issues; 1950: 3 issues: (March, June, & Dec.); and 1951: 1 issue (March). Last 3 issues have ex.-mus. stamp on front cover. Several covers mildly soiled otherwise all exteriors are VG+. Some soiling to side edges. No tears. 1940 Sept. issue, 4 pages loose, side edge lightly chipped, not on text/plates, otherwise all interiors are clean, tight, and in VG+ to Near Fine condition. View More...
Articles by Harlan Hoge Ballard,"then" President of the Agassiz Association; and THE NEW STAR IN AURIGA, by Charles Augustus Young. Articles include: NOVELITIES IN PHOTOGRAPHY (6 etchings); WATER AND AIR BAROMETERS (2 etchings); PHOTOGRAPHING LIGHTING-STROKES(1etching); FLINT IMPLEMENTS OF COCHIN CHINA (1etching); SOME CURIOUS MINERALS (5 ETCHINGS); ABOUT LICHENS(17 etchings); MIMICRY IN ANIMALS (3 etchings); EXPERIMENTS WITH WATER-JETS(3 ETCHINGS); EVOLUTION FOR THE CONTINENTS( 4 etchings); MINIATURE SUN-DIALS (4 etchings); SOUP-BUBBLES (6 etchings); JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (2 etch... View More...
Some articles include: "Official Scrutiny of the U.S. Coast-Survey"; "The British Museum of Natural History" by Frederick W. True with a full page illustration of the Main Facade of the Museum on Cromwell Road; "Immortality in modern thought" by Joseph Le Conte; "Vegetable Morphology a Century Ago-Goethe" by T.H. McBride; and "An Attempt to Photograph the Solar Corona Without an Eclipse" by Wm. H. Pickering. Also included Letters to the Editor and Notes and News. Famous Americans in publication: Frederick William True; and Joseph LeConte. Tiny chipping a... View More...
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...
Vol.5 Part I and II. " Object of the society is to promote education and useful knowledge in the departments of Science, Literature, and Art, by investigating and discussing subjects...by establishing and maintaining a Museum, a Library and a collection of works of art and objects of historic interest ..." Articles by Famous Americans include: CHARLES A. YOUNG - "Nebulae and the Nebular Hypothesis"; and LEROY C. COOLEY-"Limit of Visibility for Minute Masses". Other articles by Henry V. Pelton, President of the Institute, William A. Mowry (Oregon Settlement), W.B. Dwigh... View More...
Two volumes. BOTANICAL EXCURSION, published 1959. REPORT...1962. Volumes tell the account of the excursion and a report of Field Trip 7 Boreal Forest Excursion to the Ninth International Botanical Congress, 1959. Both volumes in Very Good condition. ex.-mus. small stamp on front cover and title page. stamped a few times on pages-doesn't interfer with text. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and in VG+ condition. View More...
Laboratory for Plant-Physiological Research, Wageningen, Hollard No. 10. 66 pp. Large fold-out with 18 illustrations. Total of 42 illustrations and 20 Tables. ex.-mus stamp on front cover. mildly soiled. one small dot water mark, doesn't go through. Missing small piece at spine top. Otherwise covers are VG-. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. View More...
An annotated list with special reference to useful plants and common plant names. Miscellaneous Publication No. 797, 742 pp. Slight soiling to covers, otherwise VG+. ex-mus. stamp on front endpaper, title p. and several top margin pages. Not in text. Interior otherwise is VG+ to Near Fine View More...
Contributions to the Botany of Vermont, VIII. Extracted from the Twentieth Vermont Agricultural Report. Distributed December 15, 1900. ex-mus. stamp and numbers on cover. 1 1/2" tear on paper spine. Spine faded. Front cover faded and mildly soiled. exterior is Good. 113 pp. with Index. Interior is VG+, tight, and clean. View More...
From the American Naturalist, December 1879. Front page signed "Compliments of Fred Brendel ("appears" to be in pencil) and underneath J.Duncan Putnam signature in ink. no front cover, but still in Very Good condition. Clean. Stapled. pp.1-31. View More...
Reprinted from The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 35. pp.303-308. ex-mus stamp on front cover. light fading, missing 1/2"x1/4" piece at bottom edge and bottom corner tip otherwise exterior is VG. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. 3 illustrations. View More...
In the Preface, the author writes "I have been led to believe that a popular work on the microscope and its revelations would at once be interesting and useful, and this belief has resulted in the present treatise, which simply exhibilts and describes some of the most rare and curious objects of the microscopic world, and the modes of preparing them for observation under the microscope; together with a short account of this instrument." 144 pp. Illustrated with "247 figures on wood and stone".Chapters include: INFUSORIAL ANIMALCULES AND PROTOPHYTES; MICROSCOPIC FOSSILS; MINUTE ... View More...
"...a book to treasure and enjoy, with a fascinating narrative inspired by superb flower illustrations, as fresh today as when painted by a Victorian lady almost 100 years ago." 160 pages with index. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. DJ in VG- condition with rubbing to corners and corners, some soiling to top interior edge, small tears to spine ends. Light rubbing to cover corners and edges, spine ends are bent. Slight "bend" to book not allowing it to lay flat. Interior is tight and clean. Book in VG+ condition. View More...
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 86. "The Division of Botany has for the last three years been collecting general and specific information concerning poisonous plants, both from general works and special articles and by experimental investigation." 32 pp. Staple-bound paper pamphlet. Missing covers. Wear to cover edges and corners, pages dirty and soiled, initials written in pencil on top of front page. Interior pages are clean. Pamphlet in Good to Good+ condition. View More...
Reprinted from The Botanical Gazette 42: pp.376-392.November 1906. 3 plates with 38 illustrations. Front cover mildly soiled, ex.-mus stamp, and two small tears at top edge. Back cover's top corner tip torn. Overall exterior is Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG. some pages uncut. View More...
Botanical Investigations and Experiments. Issued October 1, 1903. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry -- Bulletin No. 49. 86 pp. 18 b/w plates. Brown paper covers with browning along edges, some chipping to edges and wear to corners, spine is creased and torn, spine ends rubbed. Ex. museum with stamp and identification numbers on front cover. Interior clean, a few foxing spots. Document in VG- condition. View More...
