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5,123 science & nature

Experiments on Animals

Stephen Paget · science

Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline Substances

Alexander Monro · science

Experiments on the Spoilage of Tomato Ketchup

A. W. Bitting · manual

Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances

Joseph Black · science

Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency

Nikola Tesla · biography

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology

John Bernhard Smith · reference

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Part 1 (of 2)

William Lewis Herndon · travel

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Part 2 (of 2)

William Lewis Herndon · travel

Extensions of Known Ranges of Mexican Bats

Sydney Anderson · science

Lionel Walter Rothschild Baron Rothschild · science

Extinct Monsters

H. N. Hutchinson · science

Extra-galactic nebulae

Edwin Hubble · science

Eye Spy: Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things

W. Hamilton Gibson · science

Eyes and No Eyes, and Other Stories

M. V. O'Shea · short story

Fabre, Poet of Science

Georges Victor Legros · biography

Fabre's Book of Insects

Jean-Henri Fabre · science

Facts and Arguments for Darwin

Fritz Müller · science

Facts and fancies in modern science

John William Sir Dawson · science

Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science

Grant Allen · science

Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and Its Relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture

Justus Freiherr von Liebig · science

Familiar Studies in Homer

Agnes M. Clerke · history

Familiar Talks on Science: World-Building and Life; Earth, Air and Water.

Elisha Gray · science

Famous Men of Science

Sarah Knowles Bolton · biography

Faraday as a Discoverer

John Tyndall · biography

Henry F. French · manual

Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring

Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm.

Herbert A. Shearer · manual

Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan

F. H. King · travel

Farmhouse Plans

Wallace Ashby · manual

Farming with Dynamite: A Few Hints to Farmers

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company · manual

Farthest North, Vol. I

Fridtjof Nansen · travel

Fathers of Biology

Charles McRae · biography

Favorite Fish and Fishing

James A. Henshall · manual

A. Mosso · science

Featherland: How the Birds lived at Greenlawn

George Manville Fenn · novel

Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden and the Founding of the Yellowstone National Park

Geological Survey · science

Ferns of Hawaii National Park

Douglass H. Hubbard · science

Fetichism in West Africa

Robert Hamill Nassau · science

Fians, Fairies and Picts

David MacRitchie · myth

Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies · science

Field and Woodland Plants

William S. Furneaux · science

Field book of common rocks and minerals

Frederic Brewster Loomis · manual

Field Book of Western Wild Flowers

Margaret Armstrong · science

Field Book: Pennsylvanian Plant Fossils of Illinois

Charles William Collinson · manual

Field Mice as Farm and Orchard Pests

David E. Lantz · manual

Field, Forest and Farm

Jean-Henri Fabre · science

Field's Chromatography

George Field · science

Fifty Birds of Town and City

Bob Hines · science