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Natural Wonders

by Edwin Tenney Brewster

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Author
Brewster, Edwin Tenney, 1866-1960
Credits
Produced by Roger Frank
Language
English
LoC Class
QH: Science: Natural history
Subject
Nature -- Juvenile literature
Category
Text
eBook-No.
47961
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47961
Release Date
January 13, 2015
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.NATURAL WONDERS
  2. 2.I How the Chicken Gets Inside the Egg
  3. 3.II Some Other Sorts of Eggs
  4. 4.III Little Fishes In The Brook
  5. 5.IV Of Plants’ Eggs
  6. 6.V What Little Boys and Girls are Made Of
  7. 7.VI More About Living Bricks
  8. 8.VII How Much of Us Is Alive
  9. 9.VIII How We Grow
  10. 10.IX How We Grow Up
  11. 11.X How We Grow Old
  12. 12.XI Why We Grow At All
  13. 13.XII Things That Do Not Have To Be Learned
  14. 14.XIII Why We Like Certain Things
  15. 15.XIV Animals’ Games
  16. 16.XV Some Instincts of Chicks and Kittens
  17. 17.XVI Certain Stupidities of Animals
  18. 18.XVII How We Differ From The Animals
  19. 19.XVIII Something More About Speech and Thinking
  20. 20.XIX Why Most Of Us Are Right-Handed
  21. 21.XX Where We Do Our Thinking
  22. 22.XXI Where Some Of The Animals Do Their Thinking
  23. 23.XXII What Plants Know
  24. 24.XXIII What Plants Can Do
  25. 25.XXIV Some Plant-Like Doings Of Animals
  26. 26.XXV The Five Senses and The Other Five
  27. 27.XXVI Eyes
  28. 28.XXVII Seeing and Believing
  29. 29.XXVIII Some Other Senses
  30. 30.XXIX The Sight and Hearing Of Ants
  31. 31.XXX Ants’ Noses
  32. 32.XXXI Some Other Eyes and Ears
  33. 33.XXXII Having Senses and Using Them
  34. 34.XXXIII Seeing In The Mind’s Eye
  35. 35.XXXIV Ear Minds and Others
  36. 36.XXXV Living Automobiles
  37. 37.XXXVI Air and Fuel
  38. 38.XXXVII Men In Glass Boxes
  39. 39.XXXVIII Of Sugar and Other Poisons
  40. 40.XXXIX Snake Venoms and Others
  41. 41.XL Of Measles and Rusty Nails
  42. 42.XLI The Great War
  43. 43.XLII More About The Great War
  44. 44.XLIII Living Apothecary Shops
  45. 45.XLIV What Becomes Of The Tadpole’s Tail
  46. 46.XLV Nature’s Repair Shop
  47. 47.XLVI Little Monsters
  48. 48.XLVII How The Animals Keep Their Tools Sharp
  49. 49.XLVIII Why The Blood Is Salt
  50. 50.XLIX Horses’ Fingers
  51. 51.L How The Elephant Got His Trunk
  52. 52.LI Something Nobody Understands

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