Lessons in Nature, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Lessons in Nature, Vol. 1: A Book That Is Full of Condensed Information Lessons Upon the Study of Nature, It Is a Work for Regular Class-Exercises in Grammar Grades of Public Schools, for Classes in Private Schools, for Regular Supplementary Work in Any Kind of Elementary Schools Lessons in Nature contains one hundred and seven con densed lessons. The subject is so vast and all-comprehensive that no attempt has been made to give more than short Sketches upon things that often we find occupying the pages of a volume, yet these Sketches treat brie¿y upon wide areas in the fields of Nature around us. The work was prepared as a companion book to the author's Lessons in Art, in two volumes, pub lished by the Educational Publishing Company of -boston. He wishes to acknowledge with grateful thanks the valuable help he has received from all of the many sources of informa tion at hand when he wrote - the long list of books on Natural History read, the many editions of magazines, scientific treat ises on special subjects, travel sketches, guide books, all of the standard encyclopedias, Webster's Dictionary, the Con sular Reports of different countries, the newspaper clippings, many private letters, the World's Almanac for 1913, many of the latest works on geography, and the works of a long line of authors on special. Departments of Nature Study, found in the Public Library of New York City, where nearly all of the work was written during the summer vacation of 1913. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.