A Naturalist's Scrapbook
β Scribed by Thomas Barbour
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 1946
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 248
- Edition
- Reprint 2013
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Preface
Contents
CHAPTER I. The Roving Eye
CHAPTER II. The Museum of Comparative ZoΓΆlogy
CHAPTER III. The Natural History Rooms in Boston
CHAPTER IV. Of Old Museums, Especially that in Salem
CHAPTER V. Rare and Historie Birds
CHAPTER VI. The Swing of the Pendulum
CHAPTER VII. Thinking Out Loud
CHAPTER VIII. The spice Isles Forty Years Ago
CHAPTER IX. The Heavenly Twins
CHAPTER X. Mostly About Islands
CHAPTER XI. Two Pleasant Memories
CHAPTER XII. Retrospect
INDEX
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