Life of a Scotch Naturalist
by Samuel Smiles
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About this eBook
- Author
- Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904
- Title
- Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society. Fourth Edition
- Credits
- Produced by Charlene Taylor, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Edward, Thomas, 1814-1886
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 49154
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49154
- Release Date
- June 7, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.LIFE OF A SCOTCH NATURALIST
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.FAUNA OF BANFFSHIRE.
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS — OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 6.LIFE OF A NATURALIST.
- 7.CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS.
- 8.CHAPTER II. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS.
- 9.CHAPTER III. APPRENTICESHIP.
- 10.CHAPTER IV. RUNS AWAY FROM HOME.
- 11.CHAPTER V. RESUMES WORK.
- 12.CHAPTER VI. SETTLES AT BANFF.
- 13.CHAPTER VII. NIGHT WANDERERS.
- 14.CHAPTER VIII. FORMS A NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTION.
- 15.CHAPTER IX. EXHIBITS HIS COLLECTION IN ABERDEEN.
- 16.CHAPTER X. RESUMES HIS FORMER HABITS.
- 17.CHAPTER XI. BEGINS TO PUBLISH HIS OBSERVATIONS.
- 18.CHAPTER XII. RAMBLES AMONGST BIRDS.
- 19.CHAPTER XIII. LITERATURE AND CORRESPONDENCE.
- 20.CHAPTER XIV. BY THE SEA-SHORE.
- 21.CHAPTER XV. DISCOVERIES AMONG THE CRUSTACEA.
- 22.CHAPTER XVI. DISCOVERIES AMONGST ZOOPHYTES, MOLLUSCS, AND FISHES.
- 23.CHAPTER XVII. ANTIQUITIES—KITCHEN-MIDDENS.
- 24.CHAPTER XVIII. CONCLUSION.
- 25.THE FAUNA OF BANFFSHIRE.
- 26.SELECTIONS FROM THE FAUNA OF BANFFSHIRE, — MAMMALS. — BIRDS. — FISHES. — ADDITIONS. — CRUSTACEA. — ADDENDA. — FOOTNOTES:
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